Thoroughly updated in this edition, this book delivers a comprehensive introduction to database theory and database design, with many examples of implementation. All the important data models are covered, including entity-relationship, relational, object-oriented, hierarchical, and network, although the emphasis on relational clearly reflects its place in industry.
A selection of 17 papers presented at the March 1990 international conference on databases, parallel architectures, and their applications, in Miami. Among the topics are future architecture for information processing, an operational approach to the integration of distributed heterogeneous environments, a high-speed main memory file system for shared memory multi-processing systems, and a comparison of basic and workspace transaction in models. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.