Part V. Advanced Topics
Chapter 17: Introduction to SQL
Chapter 18: Building Databases with SQL Scripts
Chapter 19: Database Maintenance
Chapter 20: Database Security
The chapters in the next part of the book deal with more advanced topics. Though they are not strictly necessary for designing a database, they are very important for database practitioners. You can design a database without understanding these topics but it's unlikely that you will do a good job implementing the database without at least some awareness of them.
Chapter 17 provides an introduction to SQL (Structured Query Language). Chapter 18 explains how to use SQL to make scripts that create, populate, and otherwise manipulate databases. Chapter 19 discusses database maintenance issues and Chapter 20 describes database security.
Although these chapters don't cover every last detail of these topics, they should provide you enough background to let you build a database competently.
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