Database Systems Introduction (Second Edition)

Author: Liu Yunsheng et al.
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is based on significant adjustments, revisions, and enhancements from its 1992 edition. It is divided into three parts.
Part 1 systematically and comprehensively describes the fundamental concepts, principles, methods, and techniques of database systems. The main content includes:
- Chapter 1: The development of databases, system composition, and structure
- Chapter 2: Physical organization methods of databases
- Chapter 3: Major data models
- Chapter 4: Database management software centered around DBMS
- Chapters 5–7: Three main database technologies and methods—hierarchical, network, and relational systems
- Chapter 8: Database integrity, consistency, security, and reliability
- Chapter 9: Database design methods and techniques
- Chapter 10: Database operation, maintenance, and management
Part 2 systematically introduces the popular FoxPro database system and its usage from the perspective of examples and experimental environments (Chapters 11–15).
Part 3 provides guidance on teaching and learning, as well as experiments.
This book can serve as a textbook for database courses in computer science or non-computer science majors at universities and colleges. It is suitable for learners of various levels (undergraduate or vocational) and diverse training objectives, such as general database users or programmers, database and information system designers and developers, and database administrators. It is also a valuable reference for computer application researchers, engineering technicians, and other related professionals.