Database Management Systems - Softcover

Gupta, Prof G K

9780071330077: Database Management Systems

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ISBN 10: 0071330070 ISBN 13: 9780071330077

Publisher: Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, 2011

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DBMS is a system software package that aids in using integrated collection of data records and files known as databases. It allows different user application programs to easily access the same database. In large systems, a DBMS allows users and other software to store and retrieve data in a structured way. Instead of having to write computer programs to extract information, user can ask simple questions in a query language. It helps to specify the logical organization for a database and access and use the information within a database. DBMS tools include Oracle 11i, DB2, Websphere, etc.

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"G K Gupta recently after a thorty-five year distinguished carrer in computer scince education, research and academic management. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, clayton. Professor Gupta was born and raised in India and completed udereducate studies at the University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee). He did Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada and then migrated to Australia in 1972 where he joined the Department of Computer Science at Monash University. While working full-time, he obtained a doctorate from the same university. In 1986, Professor Gupta moved to James Cook University as Foundation Professor and Head to establish a new department of computer science. He also served as Dean of the School of Information Technology at Bond University from 1998 to 2022. He came back to Monash University in October 2002 as Deputy Dean. Here he also served as Acting Dean before returning to the position of Professor of Computer Science. Professor Guta was seconded by the Australian Government to the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok for two years 1979-1981, to help set up a new department there. He has also spent a year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, another year at Bell Laboratories in new Jersey, eight months at International University in Germany and made two three-month visits to VIT University at Vellore in India. Professor Gupta in a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was awarded the inaugural Distinguished Service Award by the Computer Science Research and Education (CORE) society in 2004. Professor Gupta has previously authored the book Introduction to data Mining with Case Studies; published in 2006."

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