Creator: Nada Lavrac Edition: 1 Publication date: 2001-10-02 Dewey code: 006.3 List Price: $99.00 Price: $70.96
Review Relational Data Mining / Springer:Monograph provides a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the area. Introduces the reader to the basics and principles of classical knowledge discovery in databases and inductive logic programming.
Creator: Yahiko Kambayashi Edition: 1 Publication date: 2002-11-11 Dewey code: 005.756 List Price: $82.95 Price: $55.17
Review Conceptual Modeling - ER 2002 / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2002, held in Tampere, Finland in October 2002. The 30 revised full papers presented with abstracts of various invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from close to 130 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics and meta-models, principles of ontology, web environments, theory and methods, methods and tools, applications for practice, applying ontology in conceptual modeling, applying ontology in coneptual modeling, systems and data integration, quality assessment, and XML and object systems.
Edition: 1st Publication date: 2001-12-15 Dewey code: 005 Price: $39.95
Review MySQL / Apress:Unmistakably, the advent of Open Source technologies has made a considerable impact upon the IT sector in recent years. Perhaps the repercussions of this impact resonate no more loudly than in the database sector, where Open Source databasing products offer users a comparable alternative to the costly commercial solutions available on the market today. One such Open Source database enjoying enormous popularity is MySQL. Offering very fast and reliable data management, MySQL has come to be depended on by a number of the World's largest and most respected organizations for handling mission critical information. In a successful effort to tackling those issues most important to the reader, Kofler not only concentrates on the MySQL database server itself, but also demonstrates how it can be used in conjunction with various other technologies in order to Web-enable the reader's database information. Kofler's MySQL introduces the many facets of MySQL, guiding the reader through installation, configuration, and subsequent implementation of the popular database server. Intermingling MySQL instruction with valuable general database design philosophy, MySQL proves to be an irreplaceable resource for MySQL novices and experts alike. Michael Kofler earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science at Graz Technical University. [+]
He has written a number of successful computer books on topics such as Visual Basic, Linux, Mathematica, and Maple. Kofler is also the author of the recently published Apress title, Definitive Guide to Excel VBA.
Edition: 1st Publication date: 2001-05-23 Dewey code: 005.7565 List Price: $80.95 Price: $45.36
Review SQL: 1999 - Understanding Relational Language Components (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) / Morgan Kaufmann:This book is the best way to make the leap from SQL-92 to SQL:1999, but it is much more than just a simple bridge between the two. The latest from celebrated SQL experts Jim Melton and Alan Simon, SQL:1999 is a comprehensive, eminently practical account of SQL's latest incarnation and a potent distillation of the details required to put it to work. Written to accommodate both novice and experienced SQL users, SQL:1999 focuses on the language's capabilities, from the basic to the advanced, and the ways that real applications take advantage of them. Throughout, the authors illustrate features and techniques with clear and often entertaining references to their own custom database, which can be downloaded from the companion Web site. * Gives authoritative coverage from an expert team that includes the editor of the SQL-92 and SQL:1999 standards. * Provides a general introduction to SQL that helps you understand its constituent parts, history, and place in the realm of computer languages. * Explains SQL:1999's more sophisticated features, including advanced value expressions, predicates, advanced SQL query expressions, and support for active databases. * Explores key issues for programmers linking applications to SQL databases. * Provides guidance on troubleshooting, internationalization, and changes anticipated in the next version of SQL. * Contains appendices devoted to database design, a complete SQL:1999 example, the standardization process, and more.
Authors
- Bijoy Bordoloi
- Douglas B. Bock
Publication date: 2003-11-08 Dewey code: 005.7585 List Price: $86.67 Price: $65.95
Review SQL for SQL Server / Prentice Hall:This book focuses on teaching standard ANSI SQL, flavored with additional examples of the supplemental commands provided in the Oracle implementation of SQL. All of the SQL concepts and covered are equally applicable to database management system software that follows the ANSI SQL standard, including DB2, SQL Server, and SYBASE, among others. This book organizes SQL subtopics into small chapters. These include coverage of basic relational database and database management system concepts, with the use of the SQL Query Analyzer for executing SQL statements; how to define and create database and tables for data storage, including the use of DDL (data definition language) and DML (data manipulation language); all primary components of SQL, including querying single tables, multiple tables (“joins”), coding nested and correlated subqueries, using common functions, defining views, and much more. Because of its comprehensive coverage of Oracle SQL, this book is an excellent resource for SQL programmers, systems analysts, database programmers, and database administrators.
Publication date: 1994-01 Dewey code: 005.75 Price: $52.95
Review An Extended Entity-Relationship Model: Fundamentals and Pragmatics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This text presents a comprehensive introduction to an extended Entity-Relationship model both on a conceptual and on a formal, mathematical level. In addition to the primitives given by the data model the text introduces a language for the formulation of constraints in order to restrict database states to consistent ones. The text explains an implementation of the approach chosen in the logic programing language PROLOG and discusses in this context the computational power of the proposed calculus. The extended Entity-Relationship calculus is used to define the meaning of the relational query language SQL. A nice feature of the approach is that it becomes possible to prove language properties on a sound mathematical basis.
Authors
- Wolfgang Kirsten
- Michael Ihringer
- Peter Schulte
Edition: Bk Publication date: 2001-01-01 Dewey code: 005 List Price: $88.95 Price: $59.00
Review Object-Oriented Application Development Using the Cache Postrelational Database / Springer:Nowadays, newly developed software is often already obsolete by the time it is introduced. The object-oriented concept provides a solution to this "crisis": applications are modeled as software objects that describe both the properties and the behavior of real world objects. Such objects are encapsulated and hide the inner complexity behind a public interface. This allows objects to be used in a wide range of program packages without the internal realization needing to be known. - The connection of object-oriented modeled applications with a database places special demands on the DBMS and the development environment when you want to avoid the usual performance and semantics losses. This book provides a detailed description of the object model of the Caché postrelational database. In addition, the reader is guided step-by-step through the development of a first postrelational application. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete associated software.
Edition: 3 Publication date: 2003-12-05 Dewey code: 005.7585 List Price: $49.99 Price: $197.69
Review Programming Oracle Triggers and Stored Procedures (3rd Edition) (Prentice Hall PTR Oracle Series) / Prentice Hall PTR:Advanced Oracle features such as triggers and stored procedures make itpossible to build databases that incorporate business rules - allowing companiesto reengineer processes more quickly and effectively than ever. This is the"bible" for anyone designing complex Oracle databases that incorporatebusiness rules, and it is fully compliant with Oracle 10g. The book presents asimple methodology which yields a highly-maintainable repository of triggersand stored procedures which are easy to manage and modify as the businesschanges. Topics covered include: declarative constraints; analyzing constraintsthrough the data dictionary; PL/SQL program units; embedded SQL; datatypes and composite structures; error handling and exceptions; andinterprocess communication. A trigger is a condition, which if true, causes a stored procedure to execute. Stored procedures are SQL code embedded in the database that providescritical information to the end user when triggered.
Edition: Facsimile Publication date: 1995-01-26 Dewey code: 005.756 List Price: $48.20 Price: $182.95
Review Relational Database Writings 1991-1994 / Addison Wesley:Readers familiar with the three prior volumes of database guru Chris Date's Relational Database Writings series will need no further recommendation. The fourth volume compiles Date's authoritative columns, articles, and papers on various aspects of relational technology-spanning the years 1991 to 1994.
Edition: 1 Publication date: 1999-10-28 Dewey code: 005 List Price: $64.95 Price: $47.62
Review Efficient Software Development with DB2 for OS/390: Organizational and Technical Measures for Performance Optimization / GWV-Vieweg:Jürgen Glag' s book points out how to ensure professional and efficient database software development in DB2 mainframe and client/server environments. The asset of this book is that technical aspects (performance, tuning) and organizational measures (economical performance) are covered. Consequently, this book is suitable particularly for organizations that want to use DB2 in an economical and safe way. Work in various large production systems with DB2 revealed that most performance problems arise either from a certain critical transaction load onwards or for particularly large tables. Many measures can be taken in order to identify and to solve these problems during software development and not, as is often the case, only in production environment. Beyond explaining the causes for performance problems, this book also describes and explains well-proven measures to avoid such problems. The book particularly addresses those persons who are responsible for data processing and quality assurance; project leaders and project managers in the data processing area; and software and application developers.
Authors
- International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach 1993 arlingt
- Ramez A. Elmasri
- Vram Kouramajian
Creator: Bernhard Thalheim Publication date: 1994-07 Dewey code: 005.74 List Price: $98.00 Price: $123.86
Review Entity-Relationship Approach-Er '93: 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach Arlington, Texas, Usa, December 15-17, 1993 : (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Entity-Relationship Approach, held in Arlington, Texas in December 1993; it contains the revised versions of 42 papers selected for presentation at the conference from a total of 87 submissions. The volume presents many of the most important results on the ERA published since the predecessor conference ER '92. It is organized in sections on object-oriented models, query languages, applications of the ER model, knowledge-based modeling, data modeling, schema integration, reuse and reengineering, integrating ER and object-orientation, conceptual clustering, modeling time and data semantics.
Creator: Harrie C.M. de Swart Edition: 1 Publication date: 2003-02-12 Dewey code: 004 List Price: $59.95 Price: $59.35
Review Relational Methods in Computer Science: 6th International Conference, RelMICS 2001, and 1st Workshop of COST Action 274 TARSKI Oisterwijk, The Netherlands, ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science, RelMICS 2001 and the 1st Workshop of COST Action 274 TARSKI, Theory and Application of Relational Structures as Knowledge Instruments held in Oisterwijk, The Netherlands, in October 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on algebraic and logical foundations of real world relations, mechanization of relational reasoning, and relational scaling and preferences.
Authors
- Michael Stowe
- Albert Lulushi
Publication date: 1998-12-16 Dewey code: 005 List Price: $119.99 Price: $68.97
Review Oracle Developer's Resource Library / Prentice Hall:
Edition: Stg Publication date: 2007-05-01 Dewey code: 004 List Price: $59.95 Price: $53.89
Review DB2 9 Fundamentals Certification Study Guide / Mc Press:Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company's development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called "services", which allow for a quick response to change. This book tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the buzzwords and benefits, but also the technologies that underlie SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a practical meaning to abstract ideas. SOA for the Business Developer: * Gives a detailed overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including namespaces and XML schema. * Describes Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and SOAP, the standard SOA technologies. * Gives a clear tutorial on XML Path Language (XPath), a language for deriving data from transmitted messages and other sources. XPath is useful for working with a variety of other technologies, including several described in this book. * Gives comprehensive details on BPEL 2. 0, a language that coordinates services and whose preceding version is already in numerous products. [+]
Our coverage is sufficient for most of your work with BPEL and includes a quick-reference guide. * Introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA), a proposed standard for composing and deploying applications. You're sure to hear more of SCA, which is sponsored by 18 companies. * Introduces Service Data Objects (SDO), a proposed standard for representing data in a single way, even if the data comes from different types of data sources. SDO is likely to accompany SCA into the limelight.
Publication date: 2008-03-01 Dewey code: 005 List Price: $64.95 Price: $58.16
Review DB2 9 for Developers / Mc Press:Written by an "in-the-trenches" consultant, this guide hails the newest version of DB2 as a major release, highlighting the large number of totally new features, most notably the addition of XML capabilities. Packed with the information DB2 developers and administrators need to know when implementing version 9, the discussion covers upgrading from prior releases of DB2, converting relational data to XML data, and how DB2 supports industry standard schemas. With detailed examples and useful scripts, users learn how to develop DB2 XML applications, design an XML database, and tune the DB2 XML hybrid database. Extensive information on DB2 optimization of SQL and XML is a particularly useful feature of the book and includes a rundown on import and export utilities that database managers can use in their own installations. Going far beyond the standard manuals and certification guides, this is a truly comprehensive resource that teaches the "why" and "how" of a well-designed and well-implemented DB2 database.
Creator: Mong Li Lee Edition: 1 Publication date: 1999-07-20 Dewey code: 005.74011 List Price: $89.95 Price: $84.04
Review Conceptual Modeling - ER '98: 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Singapore, November 16-19, 1998, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (v. 1507) / Springer:This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '98, held in Singapore, in November 1998. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 95 submissions. The book is divided into chapters on conceptual modeling and design, user interface modeling, information retrieval on the Web, semantics and constraints, conceptual modeling tools, quality and reliability metrics, industrial experience in conceptual modeling, object-oriented database management systems, data warehousing, industrial case studies, object-oriented approaches.
Edition: New Publication date: 2008-06-23 List Price: $59.99 Price: $46.76
Review Troubleshooting Oracle Performance / Apress:What do you do when your database application isn’t running fast enough? You troubleshoot, of course. Finding the slow part of an application is often the easy part of the battle. It’s finding a solution that’s difficult. Troubleshooting Oracle Performance helps by providing a systematic approach to addressing the underlying causes of poor database application performance. Written for developers by an application developer who has learned by doing Gives a systematic approach to solving database application performance problems Helps you plan for performance as you would for any other application requirement What you’ll learn See how to treat and plan for performance as a basic application requirement. Identify performance problems using a systematic and repeatable approach. Configure your query optimizer to meet your application performance goals. Optimize table accesses, joins, and physical table layout. Read and recognize inefficient SQL execution plans. Reduce inefficiencies from too much procedural code. [+]
Who is this book for? For application developers and database administrators involved in troubleshooting performance problems of Oracle-based applications About the Apress Pro Series The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career. Related Titles from Apress Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals The Art and Science of Oracle Performance Tuning Forecasting Oracle Performance.
Edition: 1 Publication date: 2008-10-24 Dewey code: 005 List Price: $89.95 Price: $52.47
Review Logical and Relational Learning (Cognitive Technologies) / Springer:This textbook covers logical and relational learning in depth, and hence provides an introduction to inductive logic programming (ILP), multirelational data mining (MRDM) and (statistical) relational learning (SRL). These subfields of data mining and machine learning are concerned with the analysis of complex and structured data sets that arise in numerous applications, such as bio- and chemoinformatics, network analysis, Web mining, and natural language processing, within the rich representations offered by relational databases and computational logic. The author introduces the machine learning and representational foundations of the field and explains some important techniques in detail by using some of the classic case studies centered around well-known logical and relational systems. The book is suitable for use in graduate courses and should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in computer science, databases and artificial intelligence, as well as practitioners of data mining and machine learning. It contains numerous figures and exercises, and slides are available for many chapters.
Publication date: 2003-08-07 Dewey code: 005.276 Price: $24.99
Review WebObjects 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide / Peachpit Press:Apple's best-kept secret may be WebObjects, its highly regarded, but little marketed Web-application development software. With WebObjects, you can easily create dynamic Web pages containing data from a relational database, making it perfect for e-commerce sites. Companies like UPS, Sony, Virgin and British Telecom use WebObjects to build their own custom Java-based Web applications that handle heavy user loads. WebObjects 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide offers task-based content and a tabbed format to let you learn as you work, giving you just what you need to know to get the job done-no wading through pages of lessons. By following the step-by-step tasks, you'll be building custom Web applications in no time.
Authors
- C.J. Date
- Hugh Darwen
- Nikos Lorentzos
Edition: 1 Publication date: 2002-12-03 Dewey code: 005.75 List Price: $71.95 Price: $54.50
Review Temporal Data & the Relational Model (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) / Morgan Kaufmann:Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no temporal features at all, but this situation is likely to change soon for a variety of reasons; in fact, temporal databases are virtually certain to become important sooner rather than later, in the commercial world as well as in academia. This book provides an in-depth description of the foundations and principles on which those temporal DBMSs will be built. These foundations and principles are firmly rooted in the relational model of data; thus, they represent an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one, and they will stand the test of time. This book is arranged in three parts and a set of appendixes:* Preliminaries: Provides a detailed review of the relational model, and an overview of the Tutorial D language. * Laying the Foundations: Explains basic temporal data problems and introduces fundamental constructs and operators for addressing those problems. * Building on the Foundations: Applies the material of the previous part to issues of temporal database design, temporal constraints, temporal query and update, and much more. * Appendixes: Include annotated references and bibliography, implementation considerations, and other topics. Key features:* Describes a truly relational approach to the temporal data problem. * Addresses implementation as well as model issues. [+]
* Covers recent research on new database design techniques, a new normal form, new relational operators, new update operators, a new approach to the problem of "granularity," support for "cyclic point types," and other matters. * Includes review questions and exercises in every chapter. * Suitable for both reference and tutorial purposes.
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