Database in Depth (Paperback)

C.J. Date

Database in Depth (Paperback)
  • 出版商: O'Reilly
  • 出版日期: 2005-05-31
  • 定價: $1,188
  • 售價: 9.0 折 $1,069
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 232
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0596100124
  • ISBN-13: 9780596100124

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This book sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, which is fundamental to all database-backed applications--and, consequently, most of the work that goes on in the computing world today. Database in Depth: The Relational Model for Practitioners goes beyond the hype and gets to the heart of how relational databases actually work.

Ideal for experienced database developers and designers, this concise guide gives you a clear view of the technology--a view that's not influenced by any vendor or product. Featuring an extensive set of exercises, it will help you:

  • understand why and how the relational model is still directly relevant to modern database technology (and will remain so for the foreseeable future)
  • see why and how the SQL standard is seriously deficient
  • use the best current theoretical knowledge in the design of their databases and database applications
  • make informed decisions in their daily database professional activities


Database in Depth will appeal not only to database developers and designers, but also to a diverse field of professionals and academics, including database administrators (DBAs), information modelers, database consultants, and more. Virtually everyone who deals with relational databases should have at least a passing understanding of the fundamentals of working with relational models.

Author C.J. Date has been involved with the relational model from its earliest days. An exceptionally clear-thinking writer, Date lays out principle and theory in a manner that is easily understood. Few others can speak as authoritatively the topic of relational databases as Date can.

 

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Preface

     A Remark on Terminology

     Principles, Not Products
     A Review of the Original Model

     Model Versus Implementation

     Properties of Relations

     Relations Versus Relvars

     Values Versus Variables

     Summary

     Exercises

     Domain-Constrained Comparisons

     Data Value Atomicity

     So What's a Type?

     Scalar Versus Nonscalar Types

     Summary

     Exercises

     What's a Tuple?

     Some Important Consequences

     What's a Relation?

     Further Important Consequences

     Why Duplicate Tuples Are Prohibited

     Why Nulls Are Prohibited

     TABLE_DUM and TABLE_DEE

     Summary

     Exercises

     Updating Is Set-at-a-Time

     More on Candidate Keys

     More on Foreign Keys

     More on Views

     Relvars and Predicates

     More on Relations Versus Types

     Summary

     Exercises

     More on Closure

     The Original Operators

     Evaluating SQL Expressions

     Extend and Summarize

     Group and Ungroup

     Expression Transformation

     Relational Comparisons

     More on Relational Assignment

     The ORDER BY Operator

     Summary

     Exercises

     Type Constraints

     Database Constraints

     Transactions

     Why Database Constraint Checking Must Be Immediate

     But Doesn't Some Checking Have to Be Deferred?

     Constraints and Predicates

     Miscellaneous Issues

     Summary

     Exercises

     The Place of Design Theory

     Functional Dependencies and Boyce/Codd Normal Form

     Join Dependencies and Fifth Normal Form

     Two Cheers for Normalization

     Orthogonality

     Some Remarks on Physical Design

     Summary

     Exercises

     The Relational Model Defined

     Objectives of the Relational Model

     Some Database Principles

     The Relational Model Versus Others

     What Remains to Be Done?

     Summary

     Exercises

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