Modern Database Management, 5/e is the ideal book for your database management course. While sufficient technical detail is provided, the emphasis remains on management and implementation issues pertinent in a business information systems curriculum. When used in tandem with Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 2/e by Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Joey F. George, and Joseph S. Valacich (1999-Addison Wesley Longman), students can follow a common systems development framework in the SA&D and database sequence.