Database and its applications

Author: Xiao Shenyong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2007-01-29
Features: This book uses Visual FoxPro 8.0 as a tool, closely following the development and changes in database technology, and comprehensively and detailedly introduces knowledge related to database technology, programming, and basic applications. The book is divided into 12 chapters. The content includes fundamental concepts of database systems, the meaning and steps of database design, entity-relationship models, relational models, and basic relational theories such as relational algebra, data integrity, and relational normalization. It also provides detailed explanations of Visual FoxPro's data types, functions, and expressions, traditional record-based database operations in FoxPro, standard relational database language SQL, structured programming, and object-oriented programming centered around forms, menus, and reports. Additionally, it covers project managers, project creation, and Internet applications for Visual FoxPro 8.0 and databases. Finally, it includes an overview of the development of database technology and brief introductions to several common large-scale database management systems.
This book incorporates the author's accumulated experience from long-term database teaching and practical applications, employing an example analysis method. Through numerous examples, it provides a comprehensive and in-depth explanation of databases, programming, and database applications. The examples are logically connected, clear, vivid, and easy to understand, with many of them carefully designed by the author. The content is complete, the language style is simple and engaging, and it covers the main points of the Visual FoxPro examination syllabus for the National Computer Rank Level 2 exam. The book is rich in examples and exercises, accompanied by a supplementary learning guide and experimental instruction manual, making it highly suitable for teaching database knowledge to non-computer majors and for self-study. It can also serve as a reference book for learning relational database theory and Visual FoxPro operations and applications.