Database Principles, Programming, and Performance (Others)

Author: (USA) O'Neill
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is an ideal textbook for computer science students, covering various aspects of relational database theory, SQL language, database design, as well as database integrity, views, security, indexing, transaction management, etc. Its features include: comprehensive and in-depth discussion of database theory, closely integrating theory with database programming and management practices. It is one of the mainstream database course textbooks internationally and has been adopted by prestigious universities such as the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California, and Northeastern University. This book was written based on a series of introductory and advanced database textbooks by Boston University. It elaborates on the design and implementation of databases from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The book focuses on the object-relational model, introducing new concepts commonly used in Oracle, DB2, and Informix systems. It also introduces SQL-99, combining database theory, principles, and major commercial data products. The book covers various aspects of relational database theory, SQL language, database design, as well as database integrity, views, security, indexing, transaction management, etc. Patrick O'Neil is a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of databases and has made significant contributions to transaction processing performance and disk access algorithms. He has authored specialized books on database and transaction processing benchmarks. He is also an active industry consultant, having worked at companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, and Informix.