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A Guided Tour of Relational Databases and Beyond /

Database theory is now in a mature state, and this book addresses important extensions of the relational database model such as deductive, temporal and object-oriented databases. It provides an overview of database modelling with the Entity-Relationship (ER) model and the relational model providing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levene, Mark
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Loizou, George
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 1999.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Database management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Entity Relationship Model
  • The Relational Data Model
  • Relational Database Design
  • Incomplete Information in the Relational Data Model
  • Computable Database Queries and the Expressiveness of the Relational Algebra
  • Temporal Relational Databases
  • Concurrency Control and Recovery
  • Deductive Databases
  • Extensions to the Relational Data Model and Recent Directions.