Database Principles, Methods, and Applications

Author: Zhang Yingxin
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book is a distillation of the author's 20 years of experience in teaching, researching, and practicing database technology. It reasonably integrates database theory, methods, and application technologies. All theoretical and methodological explanations are introduced through simple and easy-to-understand examples, emphasizing the connection between theory and practice. It provides numerous practical application examples, with case studies, aiming to make the content both in-depth and accessible, ensuring that readers without prior knowledge can also learn effectively. The book mainly includes nine chapters: Introduction to Database Systems, Relational Data Model, Structured Query Language (SQL), Database Design, Normalization of Relations, SQL Programming Techniques, Database Management, Database System Architecture, and Web Databases. Additionally, the online course "Database Technology" accompanies this book and has been published by Higher Education Press. This book can serve as a textbook for database courses in majors such as Computer Applications, Information Management and Information Systems, E-commerce, and Software Engineering. It can also be used as a foundational textbook for database application courses in other science and engineering, management, and economics-related disciplines. It also holds some reference value for engineering technicians engaged in the development of database application systems.