Rassmatrivaetsya ves' krug voprosov, neobkhodimykh dlya ponimaniya printsipov i organizatsii raboty baz dannykh (BD) i baz znaniy (BZ): teoreticheskie osnovy BD i BZ; organizatsiya relyatsionnykh BD, obrabotka dannykh na yazyke relyatsionnnoy algebry, struktury i modeli dannykh, proektirovanie BD, sistemy upravleniya BD, prakticheskie tekhnologii raboty s BD, vvedenie v yazyk SQL, mnogopol'zovatel'skie BD, administrirovanie BD, vvedenie v tekhnologii BZ. Izdanie prednaznacheno dlya studentov, obuchayushchikhsya po spetsial'nostyam, ne svyazannym s podgotovkoy razrabotchikov sredstv informatsionnykh tekhnologiy, a takzhe dlya vsekh spetsialistov, zhelayushchikh povysit' svoi znaniya, umeniya i kompetentnost' v oblasti BD i BZ. Budet poleznym dlya massovogo pol'zovatelya sredstv informatsionnykh tekhnologiy vo vsekh oblastyakh deyatel'nosti.