Theory and Practice of Relational Databases - Softcover

Stanczyk, Stefan; Champion, Bob; Leyton, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415247020 ISBN 13: 9780415247023

Publisher: CRC Press, 2001

Synopsis

The study of relationship databases is a core component of virtually every undergraduate computer science degree course. This new edition of Theory and Practice of Relationship Databases retains all the features that made the previous edition such as success, and goes on to give even more comprehensive and informative coverage. Written in a tutorial style and containing a great many examples and exercises as well as extensively using illustrative and explanatory graphics, the author has produced an undergraduate textbook of great depth and clarity that is very easy to follow. The subject of relational databases is brought to life by the writing style and the inclusion of an homogenous case study that reinforces the issues dealt with in each chapter. The primary objective of the book is to present a comprehensive explanation of the process of development of database application systems within the framework of a set processing paradigm. Since the majority of these applications are built as relationship systems, a complete though reasonably concise account of that model is presented. Dr. Stanczyk has achieved this by concentrating on the issues that contribute significantly to the application development while de-emphasizing purely theoretical aspects of the subject. This has led to an imaginative and highly practical textbook that will be an excellent read for the undergraduate computer science student.

About this title

About the Author

Stefan Stanczyk, Bob Champion and Richard Leyton

From the Back Cover

The first edition of Theory and Practice of Relational Databases provided a comprehensive introductory text to the process of developing database applications. This new and substantially revised edition follows the same tutorial-style format. It is rich with examples, questions and worked problems. It starts with data modelling and progresses through the fundamental concepts of relational databases, normalisation and relational algebra. A comprehensive description of the database language SQL is included. Supported by numerous illustrations, this section leads us through the algebraic operations and optimisations that lead to proficiency in SQL programming.

The object-orientation paradigm has been steadily attracting database researchers and application developers. This edition covers the modeling techniques, structural properties and programming principles of the paradigm as they apply to databases.

The book culminates in a detailed case study which brings together the examples and principles as a whole. An associated website contains an open-source and freely available database management system and provides additional information and links to further reading.

Theory and Practice of Relational Databases is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the computer sciences, database practitioners and anyone with an interest in database development.

Stefan Stanczyk is Deputy Head of the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University where he directs Computing Studies. Bob Champion is Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering also at Oxford Brookes University. Richard Leyton is senior system administrator for beenz.com and is the author of an education RDBMS used at a growing number of universities around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415247020
• ISBN 13: 9780415247023
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264