Here's a thorough introduction to the latest developments in database systems design presented from an applications point of view. Featuring contributions from well-known experts in the field, this new book pays special attention to issues raised by new trends in database design, and how these developments affect the programmer and database administrator. The authors and editors present concepts in an intuitive and motivating manner, making extensive use of examples, and including lists of references for additional study with each chapter.

Database management is attracting wide interest in both academic and industrial contexts. New application areas such as CAD/CAM, geographic information systems, and multimedia are emerging. The needs of these application areas are far more complex than those of conventional business applications. The purpose of this book is to bring together a set of current research issues that addresses a broad spectrum of topics related to database systems and applications. The book is divided into four parts: - object-oriented databases, - temporal/historical database systems, - query processing in database systems, - heterogeneity, interoperability, open system architectures, multimedia database systems.

The database field has experienced a rapid and incessant growth since the development of relational databases. The progress in database systems and applications has produced a diverse landscape of specialized technology areas that have often become the exclusive domain of research specialists. Examples include active databases, temporal databases, object-oriented databases, deductive databases, imprecise reasoning and queries, and multimedia information systems. This book provides a systematic introduction to and an in-depth treatment of these advanced database areas. It supplies practitioners and researchers with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of commercial database systems and intelligent information systems. Advanced Database Systems was written by a team of six leading specialists who have made significant contributions to the development of the technology areas covered in the book. Benefiting from the authors' long experience teaching graduate and professional courses, this book is designed to provide a gradual introduction to advanced research topics and includes many examples and exercises to support its use for individual study, desk reference, and graduate classroom teaching.

The objective of this book is to address the advanced and emerging topics of modern database systems starting from the inception. This book is developed as a text book for the compulsory subject Database System / Database Management System / Advanced Database System of B. Tech/B.E, M.C.A and other courses of Computer Science and Engineering, Software Engineering and Information Technology. In this book, total 17 chapters have been included, namely, Introduction to Database Management System, Fundamentals of Database Management System, Conceptual Data Modeling, The Relational Data Model, Normalization, Relational Query Languages, Transaction Management & Concurrency Control, Database Recovery and Security, Query Processing, Parallel Database System, Distributed Database System - Concepts & Design, Object-Oriented Databases, Spatial Database System, Temporal and Statistical Database Systems, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Cloud Computing. Recent AICTE approved syllabus of B.Tech/B.E and MCA has been consulted for preparation of the content of the book. This book is intended for those who are professionally interested in advanced database concepts including students and teachers of computer science, software engineering and information technology, researchers, application developers, and analysts.

This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases. The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design. This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources. - Chapters contributed by various recognized experts in the field let the reader remain up to date and fully informed from multiple viewpoints. - Details multiple relational models and modeling languages, enhancing the reader's technical expertise and familiarity with design-related requirements specification. - Coverage of both theory and practice brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases.

Market_Desc: This book is a valuable source of information for academics, practitioners, post and under graduate students with a good overview of basic notions, methods and techniques, as well as important issues and trends across the broad spectrum of data management. Special Features: · Provides simple, clear and concise language, which makes the book easy and enjoyable to read.· Follows a code centric approach and provides code snippets wherever applicable.· Provides well-structured text and illustrative block diagrams and figures wherever required.· Provides case studies involving the latest technologies, such as Java, J2EE, and ASP.NET with backend database, such as Oracle and SQL Server with clear illustrations and step-wise approach on how to develop a real-life project.· Includes chapter objectives and advance organizer at the beginning of each chapter to describe what the reader would learn in the chapter.· Includes comprehensive and detailed coverage of each topic to meet the requirements of the target audience, including postgraduates, undergraduates, and professionals. About The Book: This book provides a systematic approach with an in-depth analysis of advanced database areas as well as the basics of database management systems. It explores the different normalization techniques starting from the very basic first normal form and extends up to sixth normal form. The theme of this book is the potential of new advanced database systems. This book combines advanced techniques with practical advice and many new ideas, methods, and examples for database management students, system specialists, and programmers. It provides a wealth of technical information on database methods and an encyclopedic coverage of advanced techniques. Summing up, this book is a valuable source of information for academics, practitioners, post and under graduate students with a good overview of basic notions, methods and techniques, as well as important issues and trends across the broad spectrum of data management.

Advanced Database Techniques combines advanced techniques with practical advice and many new ideas, methods, and examples for database management students, system specialists, and programmers. It provides a wealth of technical information on database methods and an encyclopedic coverage of advanced techniques that other current books on database lack.An overview covers important definitions in the area of database management and describes such classical notions as file structures, conceptual, physical and external schemas, and relational, network, hierarchical, and entity-relationship models. Remaining chapters offer advanced techniques, methods, and practical advice for functional specification and system design of a database-oriented interactive application; database architecture with qualitative and quantitative optimizations; the prediction of loads and response times; data representation, packing, and protection; selection of data elements and structures in a database; practical extensions of the relational theory to include dynamic relations and schemas, existence and processing constraints and coroutines; software architectures (functional interface and decision machine); and open databases for robotics, image processing, CAD, and artificial intelligence.Extended definitions are provided for conceptual schema, view, soft constraints and selection, relation, and dynamic schema. And an entire chapter is devoted to MSD, a new relational approach to specification and design. New software architectures for database applications are also covered. Advanced Database Techniques describes the 15 functions of a database management system and its internal mechanisms and provides a complete product review of the DBMS ORACLE as well as advice on DBMS purchasing and database administration.Daniel Martin is an independent consultant living in France. He designed and installed the largest distributed database in Europe. Advanced Database Techniques is included in the Information series, edited by Michael Lesk.

Includes bonus chapters from the book, Physical database design.

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