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Database Management: Principles and Products, 1/e

Charles J. Bontempo, IBM Software Solutions, Somers, NY
Cynthia Saracco, IBM Santa Teresa Labs., San Jose, CA

Published August, 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1996, 390 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-380189-6
$56.00


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This easy-to-read, detailed guide to fundamental database management system (DBMS) concepts and contemporary technologies details five of the most popular commercial DBMS offerings: IBM's DB2, Oracle's Oracle, Sybase's SQL Server, Tandem's NonStop SQL/MP, and Computer Associates' CA-OpenIngres.

Covers client/server DBMSs, distributed databases, replication, middleware, parallelism, and object-oriented support.



I. DBMS CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES.

    1. The Industry Today.
    2. Overview of Database Models.
    3. Major Components and Functions.
    4. The Relational Database Approach.
    5. Introduction to SQL.

II. CONTEMPORARY DBMS TECHNOLOGIES.
    6. Client/Server Environments.
    7. Distributed Databases.
    8. Replication or Copy Management Services.
    9. Middleware.
    10. Parallelism.
III. COMMERCIAL RELATIONAL DBMS PRODUCTS.
    11. Introduction and Sample Database.
    12. IBM's DB2.
    13. Tandem's NonStop SQL.
    14. Oracle's Oracle.
    15. Sybase's SQL Server.
    16. Computer Associates' CA-OpenIngres.
IV. OBJECT ORIENTATION AND DBMSs.
    17. The Object DBMS Approach.
    18. The Extended Relational and Hybrid Approaches.

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