Database Management System
Published on 1. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
768 pages
978-0-07-115508-3 (ISBN)
Description
Designed for an introductory database course, this text emphasizes conceptual and physical database design and tuning. It also covers advanced topics, such as, parallel and distributed database systems, decision support, and object relational subjects that may be useful for a further study.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
Weight
1140 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-115508-3 (9780071155083)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Introduction to database systems; introduction to the relational model; 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 supporting data warehousing, OLAP and data mining.