Synopses & Reviews
Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use of database systems. Whether you're using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, The Relational Database Dictionary will prevent confusion about the precise meaning of database-related terms (e.g., attribute, 3NF, one-to-many correspondence, predicate, repeating group, join dependency), helping to ensure the success of your database projects. Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness, this authoritative and comprehensive quick-reference contains more than 600 terms, many with examples, covering issues and concepts arising from the relational model of data.
This one-of-a-kind dictionary provides a single, compact source where DBAs, database designers, DBMS implementers, application developers, and database professors and students can find the accurate definitions they need on a daily basis, information that isn't readily available anywhere else. If you're working with or learning about relational databases, you need this pocket-sized quick-reference.
Synopsis
As more and more people turn to databases for both large systems and small web-based applications, misunderstandings arise about the precise meaning of terms like join, instantiation, view, and others. And, those misunderstandings can affect design and programming. This book provides a single source where designers, programmers, students, and DBAs using Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other relational database systems can find precise definitions. Authored by CJ Date, a founding father of relational database technology and respected expert, this pocket-sized dictionary is the definitive glossary of terms and concepts used with relational databases (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
Synopsis
This book provides a single source where designers, programmers, students, and DBAs using Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other relational database systems can find precise definitions.
Synopsis
Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use of database systems. Whether you're using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, The Relational Database Dictionary will prevent confusion about the precise meaning of database-related terms (e.g., attribute, 3NF, one-to-many correspondence, predicate, repeating group, join dependency), helping to ensure the success of your database projects. Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness, this authoritative and comprehensive quick-reference contains more than 600 terms, many with examples, covering issues and concepts arising from the relational model of data.
This one-of-a-kind dictionary provides a single, compact source where DBAs, database designers, DBMS implementers, application developers, and database professors and students can find the accurate definitions they need on a daily basis, information that isn't readily available anywhere else. If you're working with or learning about relational databases, you need this pocket-sized quick-reference.
About the Author
C. J. Date has a stature that is unique within the database industry. He is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology (a field he helped pioneer). He is best known for his books, especially his best-selling textbook An Introduction to Database Systems (8th edition published in 2004), which has sold nearly three quarters of a million copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide.
Table of Contents
DedicationForewordIntroductionAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Dictionary