Database Management Systems
2nd Edition
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Hardback
740 pages
978-0-07-232206-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text emphasizes the practical side of databases. It provides coverage of database design, uses SQL throughout and focuses on query evaluation and optimization. Chapters added to this second edition include Internet databases, decision support, data mining and object-relational databases.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 195 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-232206-4 (9780072322064)
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Persons
Content
Part 1 Basic introduction to database systems: the entity-relationship model; the relational model. Part 2 Relational queries: relational algebra and calculus; SQL - the query language; query-by-example (QBE). Part 3 Data storage and indexing: storing data - disks and files; file organizations and indexes; tree-structured indexing; hash-based indexing. Part 4 Query evaluation: external sorting; evaluation of relational operators; introduction to query optimization; a typical relational query optimizer. Part 5 Database design: schema refinement and normal forms; physical database design and tuning; security. Part 6 Transaction management: transaction management overview; concurrency control; crash recovery. Part 7 Advanced topics: parallel and distributed databases; object-database systems; Internet databases; decision support; data mining; deductive and active databases; additional topics; appendices -database design case study, the Internet shop, the minibase software.