Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days, Fourth Edition

Wanted: Database Administrator

Security is an often-overlooked aspect of database design. Most computer professionals enter the computer world with some knowledge of computer programming or hardware, and they tend to concentrate on those areas. For instance, if your boss asked you to work on a brand-new project that obviously required some type of relational database design, what would be your first step? After choosing some type of hardware and software baseline, you would probably begin by designing the basic database for the project. This phase would gradually be split up among several people—one of them a graphical user interface (GUI) designer, another a low-level component builder. Perhaps you, after reading this book, might be asked to ...