Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style
comics and serious educational content The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.
Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away she has to manage the Kingdom of
Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments scads of inventory conflicting
prices and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a
helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of
databases. In The Manga Guide to Databases Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to
simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database understand
the entity-relationship model perform basic database operations and delve into more advanced
topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements she can keep
her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally Tico explains ways to make the
database more efficient and secure and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication.
Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn and an appendix of frequently used
SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases. (Of
course it wouldn't be a royal kingdom without some drama so read on to find out who gets the
girl—the arrogant prince or the humble servant.) This EduManga book is a translation of a
bestselling series in Japan co-published with Ohmsha Ltd. of Tokyo Japan.
