Online Resources

To reduce the size and hence cost of the book, supplementary material has been made available online at the publisher’s Web site (www.mkp.com/imrd2/) for downloading. There are at least three appendices. Appendix A provides an overview of the evolution of computer hardware and software. Appendix B discusses two kinds of subtype matrix that can be used to determine subtype graphs from significant populations. Appendix C discusses advanced aspects of SQL, focusing on set-comparison queries and group extrema queries. Appendices on other topics may be added as the need arises.

The answers to the exercises are contained in two files, one for the odd-numbered questions and one for the even-numbered questions. The answers to the odd-numbered questions are openly accessible, but the answers to the even-numbered questions are password protected, in order to provide classroom instructors with a range of exercises for classroom discussion. Additional material on ORM and other topics is available via the URLs listed in the Useful Web Sites section at the back of the book.

Electronic versions of the figures, as well as further exercises and related pedagogic material, are included in supplementary online resources that are available to instructors using this book as a course text. These resources and a password for exercise answers are available to classroom instructors at http://textbooks.elsevier.com.