Database System Tutorial

Author: Shi Bolin, Ding Bao Kang, Wang Wei
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This first edition of the book was listed as an "21st Century Curriculum Textbook" by the Ministry of Education. For this revised edition, significant modifications and additions have been made, including relational logic, recursive SQL, object-relationship diagrams, UML class diagrams, ODMG standards, ODBC, JDBC, and XML. The book provides a detailed introduction to the fundamental principles, methods, and development trends of database systems. The content includes: basic concepts of database systems, operational theory of the relational model, SQL language, normalization theory, database design and ER models, storage structures, system implementation techniques, object databases, distributed databases, middleware technology, databases and the WWW, and XML technology. The first edition of the book won the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Teaching Material Award in 2002. It is the crystallization of the authors' long-term engagement in database teaching and scientific research. The book is rich in content, with rigorous and clear explanations, and includes an adequate number of exercises at the end of each chapter, making it suitable for both teaching and learning. Accompanying the book are publications such as solution manuals. This book can serve as a textbook for database courses in computer-related disciplines at universities and colleges, and can also be referenced by science and technology personnel, engineering technicians, and other relevant professionals in the information field.