Database: Principles, Programming, and Performance, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) - Hardcover

O'Neil, Patrick; O'Neil, Elizabeth

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This second edition relies on the same successful approach that distinguished the first: it covers the principles of database theory with unmatched thoroughness, and it rigorously links theory to the real world of database programming and administration. A careful discussion of SQL standards and a multitude of examples drawn from actual databases-Oracle, DB2, and Informix-complements the authors' concept-oriented instruction, allowing you to develop product-specific understanding and to learn the important...

About the Authors

Patrick O'Neil is a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He is responsible for a number of important research results in transactional performance and disk access algorithms, and he holds patents for his work in these and other database areas. Author of "The Set Query Benchmark" (in The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems, also from Morgan Kaufmann) and an area...

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"The chapter on object-relational database should be a great selling point for the book. No one else has the coverage on object relational that this chapter has; for example, the other new texts emphasize the purely object model. I think that the approach here is much more practical."--Betty Salzberg, Northeastern University

"The coverage of this book is wonderful, especially the cutting-edge of object-relational systems . . . [and]...

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  • PublisherMorgan Kaufmann
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 1558604383
  • ISBN 13 9781558604384
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages870
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