Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Third Edition (English Edition): Design, Implementation, and Management (English Edition)

Author: Carolyn Begg
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book is systematic, comprehensive, and practical, providing a solid foundation for database design practice. By clearly introducing the design, implementation, and management of databases, as well as conducting an in-depth discussion on database languages and standards, it has become a classic in the field of databases. The main features of this book are: Database design methodologies are clearly divided into three parts, each introduced in a separate chapter and accompanied by methodology examples; an in-depth analysis of SQL; a comprehensive introduction to distributed database management systems, object-oriented database management systems, and object-relational database management systems; a thorough discussion of data warehouses, online analytical processing, and data mining; an in-depth explanation of using the Web as a database application platform; additional Web resources are provided at www.booksites.net/connoly. This book is a classic in the field of databases, systematic, comprehensive, and practical, and has been selected as a textbook for database courses by universities around the world. The book is divided into eight parts, with the main contents including: fundamentals of database systems and database design; relational models and relational languages; major techniques in database analysis and design; database design methodologies; database security, transaction management, query processing and optimization, and embedded SQL; distributed DBMS and object-oriented DBMS, as well as increasingly important technologies, including the connection between DBMS and Web technologies, the relationship between semi-structured technologies and XML, data warehouses, online analytical processing, and data mining, etc. This book can be used as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and technology and related fields, as well as a reference book for database researchers and developers.