Relational databases have quickly come to be regarded as a natural and efficient way of organizing information. Duplicate data can be eliminated and powerful set-theoretic operations can be used to manipulate data. But finding the right relations for a database is not yet a trivial step for the uninitiated. This book presents a comprehensive logic programming implementation of the relational design methodology. It employs TURBO Prolog to test and establish computational viability of the relevant algorithms. It also presents the expert system prototype of a user interface, designed especially for builders of computerized databases who may have no formal training in database design.

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Book Title: Interactive Relational Database Design
Book Subtitle: A Logic Programming Implementation
Editors: Tapan P. Bagchi, Vinay K. Chaudhri
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0019944
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-51881-5Published: 08 November 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46840-0Published: 13 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 194
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Database Management, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction and problem statement

Literature survey: The methods and models

Overview of the relational model

Relational database: Design methodologies

The development of normal forms

Prolog implementation of normalization of relations

Conclusions and directions for further work

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