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Foundations of databases / Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu - Reading : Addison Wesley, 1995 - XVIII, 685 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents. PART A: ANTECHAMBER. 1. Database systems. 2. Theoretical background. 3. The relational model. PART B: BASICS: RELATIONAL QUERY LANGUAGES. 4. Conjunctive queries. 5. Adding negation: algebra and calculus. 6. Static analysis and optimization. 7. Notes on practical languages. PART C: CONSTRAINTS. 8. Functional and join dependency. 9. Inclusion dependency. 10. A larger perspective. 11. Design ande dependencies. PART D: DATALOG AND RECURSION. 12. Datalog. 13. Evaluation of datalog. 14. Recursion and negation. 15. Negation in datalog. PART E: EXPRESSIVENESS AND COMPLEXITY. 16. Sizing up languages. 17. First order, fixpoint, and while. 18. Highly, expressive languages. PART F: FINALE. 19. Incomplete information. 20. Complex values. 21. Object databases. 22 Dynamic aspects.

ISBN: 0201537710

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Database management

LC Class. No.: QA76.9.D3A26

Dewey Class. No.: 005.74