Publisher's Synopsis
Comprehensive but flexible Database Systems, , . 2/e, is a significant revision of a highly successful title,. The book is highly comprehensive and covers all data models, including relational, hierarcnlca!, entity-relationship, and object-oriented. Material of the core undergraduate course in database is solid with ample material for a graduate course focusing on implementations. Features include a detailed comparison of object-oriented models, other database models using ObjectStore and 02 as examples; and theory and concepts of deductive database systems. New to this edition are updated coverage of SQL and Objectoriented models; expanded coverage of transactions, concurrency control, and recovery; a revised chapter on advanced data models that includes nested relational models, structural models, and binary models.
