Advanced database technology and design /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Artech House,
2000.
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| Series: | Artech House computer library
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=67444 |
Table of Contents:
- Evolution and trends of database technology
- Database evolution
- Historical overview: first and second DB generations
- Evolution of DB design methodologies
- The new DB generation
- Problems of current DBs
- Changes in organizations and in computers: the impact on DBs
- Nontraditional applications
- Research and market trends
- Performance
- Distribution and integration
- Functionality and intelligence
- Maturity of DB technology
- An introduction to conceptual modeling of information systems
- The functions of an information system
- The memory function
- The informative function
- The active function
- Examples of ISs
- Conceptual modeling
- Conceptual schema of the state
- Information base
- Conceptual schema of the behavior
- Integrity constraints
- Derivation rules
- Abstract architecture of an IS
- Requirements engineering
- Desirable properties of conceptual schemas
- Advanced technologies
- Active databases
- Example: university database
- Analysis
- Recovering business policies
- Causal business policies
- Design
- Active rules
- Supporting recovering business policies through active rules
- Supporting causal business policies through active rules
- Active behavior
- Implementation issues
- Active rules in Oracle
- Active rules in use
- Standardizing active behavior in SQL: 1999
- Rule maintenance
- Deductive databases
- Semantics of deductive databases
- Advantages provided by views and integrity constraints
- Deductive versus relational databases.