An Introduction to Database SystemsA comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of database technology. This edition features: updated coverage of object-oriented database systems, including a proposal for rapprochement between OO and relational technologies; expanded treatment of distributed databases, including client/server architectures, with an emphasis on database design issues; a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the relational model - the basis of modern database technology; and new chapters on functional dependencies, views, domains and missing information. |
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algorithm application base table basic C. J. Date calculus candidate key Cartesian product catalog Chapter CITY clause column conceptual schema constraint corresponding course CREATE BASE RELATION CREATE DOMAIN cursor data type database design database system DBMS defined definition DELETE DEPT discussion domain calculus employee entity equivalent evaluates example EXISTS expression external fact foreign key function Hugh Darwen implementation INGRES INSERT integrity rules join language lock logical means MVDs normal form Note nulls object optimization PL/I primary key problem projection query reference referential rela relation SP relational algebra relational calculus Relational Database Relational Database Writings relational model relational systems RENAME represent restriction result RETRIEVE rows S.CITY SALARY scalar Section semantic server shipment SNAME specific SPJX.P statement STATUS subset supplier numbers suppliers who supply SX.S term tion transaction tuple tuple calculus union variable