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Description

Chapter 1: Introduction

General References

http://www.microsoft.com/access/

Microsoft Access

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/

Microsoft SQL Server

http://www.oracle.com

Oracle

http://www.cai.com/products/ingres.htm

Ingres

http://www.sybase.com

Sybase

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/

IBM DB2

http://www.acm.org

Association for Computing Machinery

news://comp.databases

Questions and sometimes answers on many topics and subtopics

http://www.amazon.com

A very large bookstore

Chapter 2: Database Design

Design Documentation

http://www.rational.com/uml/

The primary site for UML documentation and examples.

http://umlcenter.visual-paradigm.com/

UML documentation and comments.

Chapter 3: Data Normalization

Information on Database Design

http://www.dbpd.com/

Database Programming & Design magazine.

http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/isb/datadmin/

Canadian Ministry of Forests data administration site, with useful information on data administration and design. Start with the development standards.

http://www.sybase.com/products/whitepapers/pkey_wpaper.html

A paper on the relative merits and costs of surrogate keys, especially within Sybase database systems.

Chapter 4: Data Queries

Basic SQL References

http://www.opengroup.org/index.htm

Standards group including SQL.

Chapter 5: Advanced Queries and Subqueries

Detailed discussions of SQL

http://www.metis.com/

SQL consulting firm with interesting tips.

http://www.jcc.com/

Another database consulting firm.

http://www.acm.org/sigmod/

Association for Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group: Management of Data.

Chapter 6: Forms and Reports

Design Guidelines

http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/uiguide

Windows interface guidelines.

http://www.microsoft.com/enable

Accessibility guidelines.

http://www.unicode.org

Primary site for Unicode information.

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/

Association for Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group: Computer and Human Interaction.

http://www.acm.org/sigcaph/

Association for Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group: Computers and the Physically Handicapped.

Chapter 7: Calculations and Data Manipulation

Programming Guidelines

http://www.microsoft.com/vbscript/us/vbstutor/vbsCodingConventions.htm

Microsoft Hungarian notation variable naming convention.

http://www.acm.org/sigplan/

Association for Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (advanced).

Chapter 8: Application Development

Application Guidelines

http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/uiguide/

Microsoft user interface guide.

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/

Microsoft site for accessibility issues.

http://www.ameritech.com/corporate/testtown/library/standard/std-guix.html

Ameritech user interface guide.

http://www.acm.org/sigapp/

Association for Computing Machinery: Special Interest Group on Applied Computing.

Chapter 9: Physical Design

Information on File and Data Storage

http://www.disktrend.com

Market research source on disk drives.

http://www.ciprico.com/raid.html

Tutorial on RAID storage.

http://www.baydel.com/tutorial.html

Tutorial on RAID storage.

http://www.broadbase.com/

Data warehouse vendors rely on optimizing physical data storage and retrieval.

Chapter 10: Database Administration

Planning, Performance, and Security

http://www.dama.org

Data Management organization.

http://www.aitp.org

Association for Information Technology Professionals organization.

http://www.acm.org/sigsac

Association for Computing Machinery: Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control.

http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/isb/datadmin/

Canadian Ministry of Forests data administration site, with useful information on data administration.

http://www.securityserver.com

Links to information on computer security.

http://www.capacityplanning.com/

Explores issues in capacity planning.

http://www.benchmarkresources.com

A related site that explores issues in benchmarking and performance.

http://swynk.com

Consultant/author with many links, and on-line full-text SQL Server book.

http://www.rational.com

A major CASE tool vendor.

http://www.sterling.com

A major CASE tool vendor.

http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/WX1051.exe

Microsoft’s original white paper on Access 2.0 security; but still one of the better explanations.

Chapter 11: Distributed Databases and The Internet

Basic Web Construction Help

http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder

Microsoft Web help (site builder network)

http://www.w3.org/

Web standards body.

http://home.netscape.com

Netscape Web support.

http://www.microsoft.com/vbasic/techmat/whitepapers/ado20/

Microsoft ADO and RDO white paper.

http://activeserverpages.com

Consulting group with comments and links on building Windows NT Web sites with databases.

Chapter 12: Object-Oriented Databases and Integrated Applications

Objects and SQL3

http://www.omg.org/

OMG and CORBA

http://www.odmg.org/

ODMG (OODBMS)

http://www.objs.com/x3h7/fmindex.htm

SQL3

http://www.jcc.com/sql_stnd.html

SQL3

http://www.service-architecture.com/object-oriented-databases/

Free, online articles about object-oriented database along with links to product vendors