by Pedro Nuno Furtado (Author)
The last years have seen exciting developments in the areas of Databases. When you book some travel, use ATM machines, buy something, pick some packet that arrived by mail, go to the bank, search for an apartment or use the web, data management is always present in the backstage. This is a textbook on databases and development of data applications. It teaches the foundations of the relational and entity-relationship models, SQL and database design. It also teaches how to design and develop applications using some programming language. But, most importantly, all concepts are extensively illustrated with examples, exercises, solutions and solving steps. This textbooks is very suitable for use in undergrad or grad courses.
Author Biography
Pedro Furtado is Professor at University of Coimbra UC, Portugal, where he teaches courses in both Computer and Biomedical Engineering. He has more than 25 years experience in both teaching, doing research and supervising industry projects. He has a broad interest in computer science subjects, with the main focus being on performance and scalability qualities of systems. Pedro applied these qualities in databases, data warehousing and analytics, bigdata, data mining, cloud, IoT and realtime systems. Pedro has more than 150 papers published in international conferences and journals, books published and several research collaborations with both industry and academia. In the last years, he has spent time as visiting scholar in some prestigious universities in the world, and collaborating with non-profit institutions.