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Database systems : concepts, management, and applications /

Lorents, Alden C.

Database systems : concepts, management, and applications / Alden C. Lorents, James N. Morgan. - Fort Worth : Dryden Press, c1998. - xxii, 650 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Dryden Press series in information systems .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 642-644) and index.

Overview of database management systems -- Data and its representation in database systems -- Tools and methods for conceptual design -- Process of database planning and development -- Airline database: Conceptual design case -- Introduction to relational tables and SQL retrieval -- Implementing a relational database -- Client-server application development -- Embedded SQL programming for client-server applications -- Control and administration of database systems -- Physical data organization for database systems -- Distributed database systems -- Object-oriented database systems -- Hierarchical model: IMS -- Network data model -- Glossary.

ISBN: 0155000292 9780155000292

LCCN: 97065944

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Database management.
Database design.

LC Class. No.: QA76.9.D3 / L693 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 005.74