For over 25 years, C. J. Dates An Introduction to Database Systems has been the authoritative resource for readers interested in gaining insight into and understanding of the principles of database systems. This exciting revision continues to provide a solid grounding in the foundations of database technology and to provide some ideas as to how ...
This title is based on an earlier book by the same authors, Foundations for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto. It is on database management, and is organized around a proposal for a foundation for data and database management systems (DBMSs). It can be seen as an abstract blueprint for the design of a DBMS and the language interface to ...
Business rules are transforming the design of enterprise database systems, enabling companies to achieve dramatic benefits in speed, flexibility, productivity, and platform-independence. In What Not How, C. J. Date -- one of the world's leading database experts -- offers the first concise, non-technical introduction to business rules. Date ...
Collected papers--many of them previously unpublished, on various aspects of relational technology--include such topics as the problems of duplicates, foreign keys, database integrity, distributed database systems, and tips on SQL.
This new edition has been extensively revised to bring it current with the new release of DB2, Version 2.3. Version 2.3 includes a new package support and improved DRDA support for distributed databases. Provides the most comprehensive coverage available anywhere of what has been described as perhaps the finest piece of software ever produced by ...
Second Edition now available! A detailed study of the impact of objects and type theory on the relational model of data, including a comprehensive proposal for type inheritance "This is the first attempt to describe what object/relational means. If you're interested in object/relational technology, this is the book to read." --Rick van der Lans ...
The SQL language has established itself as the linqua franca database management; it provides the basis for systems interoperability, application portability, client/server operation, distributed database, and more, and is supported by just about every DBMS on the market today. SQL2 - or, to give it its official name, the International Standard ...
This is the first book available on SQL/DS, the IBM relational database management system for the VM and VSE environments. It is already one of the most successful database products and is gaining increasing importance, given the accelerating acceptance of the VM environment in the marketplace.
The first text available on INGRES, the relational database system, stresses not only basic DBMS functions, but also INGRES as a total applications development system. It includes thorough treatment of the INGRES data language and discusses INGRES features for distributed processing.
Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no temporal features at all, but this situation is likely to change soon for a variety of reasons; in fact, temporal databases are virtually certain to become important sooner ...
This book is the fourth in a series. Like its predecessors, the book consists of a collection of papers on various aspects of relational technology. A special feature of the book is Part I, Theory Is Practical! which consists of the first 25 installments of Chris Date's popular column "According to Date" from Database Programming & Design magazine ...
As more and more people turn to databases for both large systems and small web-based applications, misunderstandings arise about the precise meaning of terms like "join", "instantiation", "view", and others. Those misunderstandings can affect design and programming that lead to problems down the road. "The Relational Database Dictionary" is ...
This book sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, which is fundamental to all database-backed applications--and, consequently, most of the work that goes on in the computing world today. Database in Depth: The Relational Model for Practitioners goes beyond the hype and gets to the heart of how relational databases actually work. ...
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