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Date, C. J.

An introduction to database systems / C. J. Date. - 7th ed. - Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c2000. - xxii, 938 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Table of Contents


PART I. PRELIMINARIES.
1. An Overview of Database Management.
2. Database System Architecture.
3. An Introduction to Relational Databases.
4. An Introduction to SQL.
5. Domains, Relations, and Base Relvars.
6. Relational Algebra. Introduction.
7. Relational Calculus. Introduction.
8. Integrity. Introduction.
9. Views. Introduction.
10. Functional Dependencies.
11. Further Normalization I: 1nf, 2nf, 3nf, Bcn.
12. Further Normalization Ii: Higher Normal Forms.
13. Semantic Modeling. Introduction.
14. Recovery. Introduction.
15. Concurrency. Introduction.

PART V. FURTHER TOPICS.
16. Security. Introduction.
17. Optimization.
18. Missing Information.
19. Type Inheritance.
20. Distributed Databases.
21. Decision Support. Introduction.
22. Temporal Databases.
23. Logic-Based Databases.

.PART VI. OBJECT AND OBJECT/RELATIONAL DATABASES.
24. Object Databases.
25. Object / Relational Databases.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 9780201385908 0201385902

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Database management.

Dewey Class. No.: 005.74 / DAT