Understanding database management system
This practical guide offers a detailed examination of database architectures, including relational, pre-relational, distributed and object-oriented designs. It discusses the fine points of each architecture. and explores the specific configurations of current database products offered on UNIX, mainf...
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New York
McGraw Hill
1998
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | McGraw-Hill series on data warehousing and data management.
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface
- Ch. 1 Introduction
- Ch. 2 Introduction to Databases
- Ch. 3 The Programming Profile
- Ch. 4 Visual Basic, ODBC, and the Jet Engine / John Chmela, Vijay Konkimalla
- Ch. 5 Java and Database Access / Brian Carney
- Ch. 6 The Architecture Profile
- Ch. 7 PC Architectures
- Ch. 8 Traditional Architectures
- Ch. 9 Relational Databases
- lCh. 10 Object-Oriented Databases
- Ch. 11 Star Schema Architecture / Red Brick Systems
- Ch. 12 OLAP, ROLAP, and DOLAP Systems
- Ch. 13 Data Storage Management-- Ch. 14 Enhanced Database Storage and Retrieval / Michael Lin, Cheryl Grandy
- Ch. 15 SMP, MPP, and NUMA Hardware Architectures / Mark Sweiger
- Ch. 16 The Administrative Profile
- lCh. 17 Distribution (Replication, Clustering, and Multitiered Architectures)
- Ch. 18 Database Design: Introduction
- lCh. 19 Mapping and Performance Tuning
- Ch. 20 Databases on the Internet and Intranet
- Ch. 21 Web Page/Document Databases and Search Engines
- Ch. 22 The Teradata Database / Ron Fryer
- Ch. 23 The Oracle Database Environment / Gerald "Chip" Dawes, Krishna K. Kurup
- Ch. 24 The Informix Database Environment / Krishna K. Kurup, Gerald "Chip" Dawes
- Ch. 25 Red Brick Warehouse / Red Brick Systems, Inc.
- Bibliography
- Index