An Introduction to Database Systems

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This book provides a solid grounding in the foundations of database technology and gives some ideas of how the field is likely to develop in the future. Emphasizing insight and understanding rather than formalisms, Chris Date has divided the book into six parts: Basic Concepts, The Relational Mod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: C.J. Date
Format: Printed Book
Published: Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley 2000
Subjects:
Database management.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 7. Relational calculus
  • 8. Integrity
  • 9. Views
  • 10. Functional dependencies
  • 11. Further normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF
  • 12. Further normalization II: Higher normal forms
  • 13. Semantic modeling
  • 14. Recovery
  • 15. Concurrency
  • 16. Security
  • 17. Optimization
  • 18. Missing information
  • 19. Type inheritance
  • 20. Distributed databases
  • 21. Decision support
  • 22. Temporal databases
  • 23. Logic-based databases
  • 24. Object databases
  • 25. Object/relational databases.

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