Database Management Systems
Book
Paperback/Softback
768 pages
978-0-07-114668-5 (ISBN)
Description
Taking a hands-on approach to relational database systems and emphasizing both conceptual and physical database design and tuning, this text also covers advanced topics which can be used for a second course on databases. These include transaction processing and decision support.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-114668-5 (9780071146685)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction to database systems; introduction to relational mode; storing data - disks and files; introduction to file organizations' tree-structured indexing; hash-based indexing; external sorting; relational algebra and calculus; SQL - the query language; creating and modifying relations in SQL; security and views; query-by-example; implementation of relational operations; relational query optimization; conceptual database design and the ER model; Schema refinement and normal forms for relations; physical database design and tuning; concurrency control; crash recovery and transaction rollback; parallel and distributed databases; deductive and active databases; object-oriented and object-relational databases; decision support; data wharehousing; OLAP and data mining.