Giving comprehensive coverage of all aspects of SQL programming, this student-friendly text adopts a user-oriented approach. It covers the design of databases using both the E/R model and the OO standard ODL, and explains object-oriented and object-relational database programming. It also covers the OO standard OQL and object-oriented features of SQL3, and advanced database programming, including integrity constraints, assertions, triggers and recursion in SQL3.
For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments.
- Written by well-known computer scientists, this accessible and succinct introduction to database systems focuses on database design and use.
- The authors provide in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer, leaving implementation for later courses. It covers the latest database standards: SQL: 1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts.