Preface to the Fourth Edition
One of my favorite opening lines for the database courses I taught during my 32 years as a college professor was: “Probably the most misunderstood term in all of business computing is database, followed closely by the word relational.” At that point, some students would look a bit smug, because they were absolutely, positively sure that they knew what a database was and that they also knew what is meant for a database to be relational. Unfortunately, the popular press, with the help of some PC software developers, long ago distorted the meaning of both these terms, which led many small business owners to think that designing a database was a task that could be left to a clerical worker who had taken a few days training ...
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