The 1 Easy Commonsense Guide to Database Design! Michael J. Hernandez's best-selling Database Design for Mere Mortals (r) has earned worldwide respect as the clearest simplest way to learn relational database design. Now he's made this hands-on software-independent tutorial even easier while ensuring that his design methodology is still relevant to the latest databases applications & best practices. Step by step Database Design for Mere Mortals (r) Third Edition shows you how to design databases that are soundly structured reliable & flexible even in modern web applications. Hernandez guides you through everything from database planning to defining tables fields keys table relationships business rules & views. You'll learn practical ways to improve data integrity how to avoid common mistakes & when to break the rules. Coverage

Includes:: Understanding database types models & design terminology Discovering what good database design can do for you-and why bad design can make your life miserable Setting objectives for your database & transforming those objectives into real designs Analyzing a current database so you can identify ways to improve it Establishing table structures & relationships assigning primary keys setting field specifications & setting up views Ensuring the appropriate level of data integrity for each application Identifying & establishing business rules Whatever relational database systems you use Hernandez will help you design databases that are robust & trustworthy. Never designed a database before? Settling for inadequate generic designs? Running existing databases that need improvement? Start here.

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This new international version of Database Systems maintains its engaging writing style & brevity its unique balance between theory & practice & its wealth of examples throughout the text inspiring student-friendly learning at its best. This new international version

Includes:: new chapters on Relational Algebra & Physical Database Design & UML modelling notation. It has been updated with all the latest developments & technologies & incorporates a generous number of localised & motivating business vignettes that tie the concepts to real-life situations.

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You can sink your teeth into Sienna Mercer's tenth super-girly vampire story for girls. The twins are back in Transylvania for Prince Alex & Tessa's wedding & to settle Ivy in to the Wallachia Academy. Plus they've landed the juicy job of reporting on the royals' big day for VAMP magazine. Exciting! But Olivia's pining for Jackson & to make matters worse wherever she turns she's confronted with happy couples! She struggles to overcome her feelings until distraction comes in the form of an old feud that threatens to spoil the happy couple's day... These kinds of situations only happen in My Sister the Vampire. This is a vampire book for girls who want to read about young love & innocent romance. ...

A Date with the Ice Princess Shy registrar Abigail tries to stay out of the spotlight. But determined to shake off her reputation as the hospitals ice princess shes on stage for charity being sold to the highest bidder! Soon shes bought by bad boy bachelor Dr Lewis Gallagher! & hes made it his mission to rid Abby of all her inhibitions! The Rebel Who Loved Her Nurse Becky Williams has returned to Brides Bay as a single mum & collides with Dr Ewan Mac Leod the gorgeous rebel who once tempted her. Instead she married her fiance & lived to regret it. Ewan wants a second chance but Beckys secret could destroy his dreams. Except she hasnt yet seen the depths of her onetime rebels heart... ...

Allys feeling inadequate. Her only romantic experience amounts to a burping-in-mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow but Kyras only been in Crouch End two seconds & shes got herself a boyfriend! Even Allys dad seems to be dating
- has he forgotten all about her mum. Still Allys not sure whats more worrying: not having a boyfriend or being invited on a double date with Kyra Ricardo & Ricardos mystery mate...
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This book offers a unique insight into the land & water speed record-breaking dynasty. Gina Campbell last surviving member of a remarkable dynasty will forever be most closely associated with the fatal attempt by her father to break the water speed record in his astounding boat. In that sense she is indeed the daughter of Bluebird
- & has played a ceaseless role in the boats restoration. In this absorbing autobiography she talks about: her life with Donald Campbell as father early-day celebrity & holder of many world records on land & water; her personal life
- three failed marriages a suicide attempt & finding happiness in her later life; her power-boating career & setting two womens world water speed records in 1984 & 1990; her reaction to her fathers death while attempting to set a new world water speed record on Coniston Water in January 1967; her complete shock at the discovery of Bluebird & Donald Campbells body by divers in 2001; her decision to authorize the removal of the boat & Campbells remains from the lake despite widespread opposition; & the decision to restore Bluebird & house her in the Ruskin Museum on Coniston Water. Her dream of once again seeing & hearing Bluebird on the lake.

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Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio is the adopted daughter of a two-hundred-year-old vampire Sergio Patio. She never realized why her family has had to move often or why she is not permitted to get too friendly with other young people. In fact except for one shocking moment that seemed more like a dream Lorelei never fully realized who & what her father was nor what her sisters were brought up to do for him. But one day that all changed. Sergios daughters serve a very important purpose: they are all beautiful young ladies who can easily attract
- & lure
- men so Sergio can feed on their blood. & now Daddy expects Lorelei to be the obedient daughter he needs & bring him new victims. But when Lorelei meets the shy but handsome Buddy in school she quickly falls in love with him. He feels the same way but wonders why she doesnt want to take him home to meet her father. Lorelei knows what will happen if she does & tries desperately to keep her two worlds apart but she knows she can never truly escape her fate as a daughter of darkness.

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Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the Twenties into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten & his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley she was bought up by nannies & governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child she learned to occupy her days lost in a book riding or playing with the family's animals (which included at different times a honey bear chameleons a bush baby two wallabies a lion a mongoose & a coati mundi). Her parents' vast social circle included royalty film stars senior service officers politicians & celebrities. Noel Coward invited Pamela to watch him filming; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. dropped in for tea & Churchill would call for 'a word with Dickie'. After the war Pamela truly came of age in India while her parents were the Last Viceroy & Vicereine. This introduction to the country would start a life-long love affair with the people & the place. ...

Following an attack on her family fifteen-year-old Thora is enslaved by a brutish Viking chieftain Bjorn Svanson. A healer & a midwife Thora is valuable. She also has visions of the future.. .and in one she foresees Svansons death. When her prediction becomes reality Thora recognizes that another of Svansons slaves is a man she has seen before-a man from recurrent visions who is destined to be part of her future. Assuming Svansons identity the slave & Thora use the dead mans ships to escape. Their destination is Iceland the then uncharted land of fire & ice. To succeed they must first win over Svansons crew & their journey is fraught with hardship & danger. But their troubles are only just beginning. Soon newcomers are among them & someone is stealing from Thoras medicines to cause terrible harm. Under suspicion herself can Thora unmask the real culprit & clear her name? & can Thora & the man now known as Bjorn ever really hope that their pasts wont catch up with them? ...

Young Lorelei Patio is determined to escape the eerie shadows of her past & her dark-willed father into a bright future filled with hope & love. Away from the darkness Lorelei finds refuge amongst the tenants of elderly Mrs Winston & when she meets her landlady's handsome gr&-nephew Liam love soon blossoms. But try as she might she can't seem to escape her past. Sinister nightmares weave through her nights & the hours of daylight seem incapable of protecting her from the perpetual terror that her father could find her & destroy her new life & everything she has come to hold dear. Virginia Andrews' breathtakingly seductive tale will hold readers captive in its irresistible spell. ...