Hugh Darwen. An introduction to relational database theory

Apress, 2007. - 300 pages. Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in...

Rick Copeland. Essential SQLAlchemy. O’Reilly Media, 2008. - 226 p. (pdf + Epub) Essential SQLAlchemy introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wro...

Course Technology, 2010. - 692 p. DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MANAGEMENT, NINTH EDITION, a market-leader for database texts, gives readers a solid foundation in practical database design and implementation. The book provides in-depth coverage of database design, demonstrating that the key to successful database implementation is in proper design of databases to fit within a larger strategic view of the data environment. -Updat...

Addison Wesley – 2010, 1200 pages. ISBN: 0136086209. Clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and an up-to-date introduction to modern database technologies result in a leading introduction to database systems. Intended for computer science majors, Fundamentals of Database Systems, 6/e emphasizes math models, design issues, relational algebra, and relational calculus. A lab manual and problems give stu...

Gillenson M. L. Fundamentals of database management systems. Wiley – 2012, 416 pages. ISBN: 9780470624708. A course in database management has become well established as a required course in both undergraduate and graduate management information systems degree programs. This is as it should be, considering the central position of the database field in the information systems environment. Indeed, a solid understanding of the fundamentals of data...

Oxford University Press, 1997. - 538 pages. This book presents traditional introductory topics in database theory in an accessible and thorough manner. The author conveys a clearer introduction than competing books through his organization of the material and lucid explanations of the concepts. Its presentation and style differ from existing works, most notably in the emphasis on generic concepts rather than the specifics of the existence of com...

Издательство Springer, 2010, -753 pp. Introduced forty years ago, relational databases proved unusually successful and durable. However, relational database systems were not designed for modern applications and computers. As a result, specialized database systems now proliferate trying to capture various pieces of the database market. Database research is pulled into different directions, and specialized database conferences are created. Yet the...

Morgan Kaufmann, 2011. - 333 p. - ISBN: 978-0-12-382020-4 (Fifth Edition) В Database Modeling and Design, Fifth Edition: Logical Design, 5 edition кардинально пересмотрен и расширен материал книги. База данных системы и технологии проектирования баз данных претерпели за последние годы значительную эволюцию. Реляционная модель данных и реляционные системы управления базами данных воздействуют на бизнес-приложения. Те, в свою очередь, распространя...

Издательство Springer, 1998, -276 pp. In the early days of database research, issues related to database semantics played a prominent role, and papers discussing database models, conceptual design, integrity constraints and normalization often dominated major database conferences. This began to change more than a decade ago, and nowadays those issues do not appear to be part of the mainstream research. Why is this so? Has the field been exhauste...

Издательство Springer, 2010, -155 pp. It has become highly desirable to provide users with flexible ways to query/search information over databases as simple as keyword search like Google search. This book surveys the recent developments on keyword search over databases, and focuses on finding structural information among objects in a database using a set of keywords. Such structural information to be returned can be either trees or subgraphs re...