Database: Models, Languages, Design / Edition 1
by James L. Johnson
Comprehensive, unique, and accessible, Database: Models, Languages, Design is an ideal text for the introductory computer science course in database theory. It can also serve as a self-study guide for database practitioners. Through his useful organization of the material and his comprehensive, lucid explanations of the concepts, Johnson provides a…
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Comprehensive, unique, and accessible, Database: Models, Languages, Design is an ideal text for the introductory computer science course in database theory. It can also serve as a self-study guide for database practitioners. Through his useful organization of the material and his comprehensive, lucid explanations of the concepts, Johnson provides a clear introduction to both traditional and modern topics in database theory. Use of a running example set (an aquarium database) throughout provides a strong sense of continuity.
This text describes five database models which represent current practice (the relational model), trends (the object-oriented and deductive models), and past experiences (the network and hierarchical models). Students can easily follow the evolution from one model to the next because the same features are covered for each type of database.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195107838
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication date:
- 03/13/1997
- Edition description:
- New Edition
- Pages:
- 944
- Product dimensions:
- 9.56(w) x 7.69(h) x 1.67(d)
Table of Contents
I DATABASE MODELS AND ACCESS METHODS
1. Introduction to Databases
2. Relational Databases
3. Relational Algebra
4. Relational Calculus
5. Basic SQL
6. Advanced SQL
7. Object-Oriented Databases
8. Object-Oriented Queries
9. Deductive Databases
10. Deductive Queries
11. Network Databases
12. Hierarchical Databases
13. Comparing the Database Models
II DISK STORAGE MANAGEMENT
14. File Structures
15. Indexes
16. File Structures for the Database Models
III DATABASE DESIGN
17. Application Design Capture
18. Functional Dependency Analysis
19. Join Dependency Analysis
IV EPILOGUE
20. Performance
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