The comprehensive treatment of the theory and general principles relevant to database systems, as well as the many examples, exercises, and bibliographic notes included in each chapter, should make this book useful for database courses and for practising computer scientists.
Principles and Practice of Database Systems
โ Scribed by S. M. Deen (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 399
- Series
- Macmillan Computer Science Series
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-12
Data and File Structure....Pages 13-37
Pointers and Advanced Indexes....Pages 38-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Architectural Issues....Pages 57-88
Supporting Facilities....Pages 89-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Basic Relational Model....Pages 135-175
Higher Normal Forms....Pages 176-189
Relational Languages....Pages 190-221
Codasyl Model....Pages 222-262
Codasyl Model Revisited....Pages 263-276
Standards and Equivalence....Pages 277-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
User Issues in Implementation....Pages 301-309
Prototypes and Earlier Models....Pages 310-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
New Approaches....Pages 337-356
Distributed Databases....Pages 357-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-393
โฆ Subjects
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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