Research Catalog

Title

Data base architecture / Ivan Flores.

Author

Flores, Ivan.

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1981]
• ©1981.

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Details

Description

xiv, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book is an elementary technical book on data bases, meant to inform the technically oriented person about the why's and how's of data bases. It is divided into three parts: fundamentals, architectural details, and language. The fundamentals examines applications, groups and families of data, architectures, and data base management systems. Part two provides a detailed examination of architecture, the relational data base, matrices, and normalization. The language sections looks at the use and functions of formal language, data implementation language, and query language. This book is aimed at those who have a background in computer science, technicians, scientists, managers, and anyone who wants to investigate the advantages of data base management systems, and an understanding of how they work.

Subject

• Databases
• Database design
• Relational databases
• Database management
• Computer architecture
• Programming languages (Electronic computers)
• Databanken
• Management

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes problem sets at chapter ends, and index.

Contents

I. Fundamentals ; Introduction -- Relations with the data base -- Data base architecture -- DBMS system operation -- II. Architectural details ; The relational data base -- Decomposition and normalization -- Network principles -- Networks among individuals of the same type -- The hierarchical data base -- Many-to-many relations for the HDB -- Extended example -- III. Language ; Languages in general and the DDL -- The data manipulation language -- Selection -- Query languages and dictionaries.

ISBN

• 0442227299
• 9780442227296
• 0442272999 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

80029564

OCLC

• ocm07196357
• 7196357
• SCSB-30163

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library