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Sheds light on the ideas underlying relational database systems and the problems that confront database designers and researchers Provides an overview of database modeling with the Entity-Relationship (ER) model and the relational model (two different ways of structuring databases)
Addresses important extensions of the relational database model, including deductive, temporal, and object-oriented databases Reaches a wider audience than currently available books that either cover only the basics of the relational model or that cover models such as object-orientation but does not cover relational database theory
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK
Mark Levene
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Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, London, UK
George Loizou
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Guided Tour of Relational Databases and Beyond
Authors: Mark Levene, George Loizou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-349-7
Publisher: Springer London
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-008-8Published: 28 May 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-349-7Published: 18 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 625
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management