Theory and Practice of Relational Databases - Softcover

Stanczyk, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857282329 ISBN 13: 9781857282320

Publisher: CRC Press, 1990

Synopsis

This textbook provides a practical and comprehensive tutorial guide for understanding and implementing relational databases. Each concept, formula and operation is given a precise definition that covers both the form and meaning and, whenever appropriate, a behavioural description is given. To ensure that theory can be translated to practice, extensive examples are provided. The book is suitable for a first course in databases for undergraduates in computer science.

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From the Back Cover

BACKCOVER: 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: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857282329
• ISBN 13: 9781857282320
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192