An Extended Entity-Relationship Model : Fundamentals and Pragmatics

Martin Gogolla

ISBN 10: 3540576487 / ISBN 13: 9783540576488

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This text presents a comprehensive introduction to anextended Entity-Relationship model both on a conceptual andon a formal, mathematicallevel. In addition to theprimitives given by the data model the text introduces alanguage for the formulation of constraints in order torestrict database states to consistent ones. The textexplains an implementation of the approach chosen in thelogic programing language PROLOG and discusses in thiscontext the computational power of the proposedcalculus.The extended Entity-Relationship calculus is used to definethe meaning of the relational query language SQL. A nicefeature of the approach is that it becomes possible to provelanguage properties on a sound mathematical basis. Seller Inventory # 9783540576488

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Title: An Extended Entity-Relationship Model : ...

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Taschenbuch

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This text presents a comprehensive introduction to an extended Entity-Relationship model both on a conceptual and on a formal, mathematicallevel. In addition to the primitives given by the data model the text introduces a language for the formulation of constraints in order to restrict database states to consistent ones. The text explains an implementation of the approach chosen in the logic programing language PROLOG and discusses in this context the computational power of the proposedcalculus. The extended Entity-Relationship calculus is used to define the meaning of the relational query language SQL. A nice feature of the approach is that it becomes possible to prove language properties on a sound mathematical basis.