Database Management: Principles and Products

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Features

• describes five popular DBMS offerings in considerable technical detail.
• discusses key complimentary DBMS products — such as those that provide for enhanced connectivity or improved performance.
• explores key DBMS functions and components that are critical to good performance.

Description

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. KEY TOPICS: Covers client/server DBMSs, distributed databases, replication, middleware, parallelism, and object-oriented support. MARKET: For database administrators responsible for evaluating and selecting DBMSs, as well as for relational DBMS application programmers, system administrators, and network administrators.

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Table of Contents

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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