Database Theory and New Technologies

Author: Zhou Zhikui Jiang Tao
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to database theory and new database technologies. The book is divided into two parts, each consisting of ten chapters. The first part is the relational database theory, composed of six chapters, covering topics such as relations and relation schemas, data dependencies, normalization of relation schemas, symbol tables and tracing algorithms, and acyclic database schemas. The second part is the new database technologies, consisting of four chapters, covering topics such as distributed databases, object-oriented databases, active databases, parallel databases, multimedia databases, engineering databases, data warehouses, etc. Each chapter is followed by exercises.