
An Extended Entity-Relationship Model
Fundamentals and Pragmatics
Martin Gogolla(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 28. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 141 pages
978-3-540-57648-8 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents a comprehensive introduction to an
extended Entity-Relationship model both on a conceptual and
on a formal, mathematicallevel. In addition to the
primitives given by the data model the text introduces a
language for the formulation of constraints in order to
restrict database states to consistent ones. The text
explains an implementation of the approach chosen in the
logic programing language PROLOG and discusses in this
context the computational power of the proposedcalculus.
The extended Entity-Relationship calculus is used to define
the meaning of the relational query language SQL. A nice
feature of the approach is that it becomes possible to prove
language properties on a sound mathematical basis.
More details
Series
Edition
1994 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XI, 141 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-57648-8 (9783540576488)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-57648-7
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Structure of data and entities.- Extended Entity-Relationship calculus.- PROLOG implementation.- Formal semantics of SQL.- Conclusions.