Database Design and Implementation: Second Edition - Paperbackby Edward Sciore (Author) This textbook examines database systems from the viewpoint of a software developer. This perspective makes it possible to investigate why database systems are the way they are. It is of course important to be able to write queries, but it is equally important to know how they are processed. We e. g. don't want to just use JDBC; we also want to know why the API contains the classes and methods that it does. We need a sense of