A Guided Tour of Relational Databases and Beyond

Download or read book A Guided Tour of Relational Databases and Beyond written by Mark Levene and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing important extensions of the relational database model, including deductive, temporal, and object-oriented databases, this book provides an overview of database modeling with the Entity-Relationship (ER) model and the relational model. The book focuses on the primary achievements in relational database theory, including query languages, integrity constraints, database design, computable queries, and concurrency control. This reference will shed light on the ideas underlying relational database systems and the problems that confront database designers and researchers.