- Paperback: 685 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (22 Nov 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201537710
- ISBN-13: 978-0201537710
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.1 x 3.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 779,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is the most comprehensive book available on database theory. It is a complete reference to both classical material and advanced topics that are otherwise scattered in sometimes hard-to-find papers. A major effort in writing the book was made to highlight the intuitions behind the theoretical development.
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Written by three leading researchers in the field, this book provides in-depth coverage of the theory concerning the logical level of database management systems, including both classical and advanced topics.
Features- Emphasizes query languages for the relational model including coverage of different language paradigms, expressive power, and complexity.
- Presents a unified theory of dependencies, including those commonly arising in practice, and their use in optimization and schema design.
- Provides theoretical underpinnings of several emerging topics, including deductive and object-oriented databases.
- Includes detailed proofs and numerous examples and exercises.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
my favourite book about database theory
13 May 2003
Format:Paperback
Whenever I need to check or find some result about database theory,
I look into Foundations of Databases, and I find the answer, stated
and explained in a clear and understandable way. This book
contains all you need about foundations of databases, and even more ...
I look into Foundations of Databases, and I find the answer, stated
and explained in a clear and understandable way. This book
contains all you need about foundations of databases, and even more ...
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The Alice Book
12 Oct 2004
Format:Paperback
I googled "The Alice Book, databases", and nothing came out, so I'm fixing mostly this part in my review.
In a word, if you are a DBA, you don't need this book and won't be able to understand 99% of it, but if you are database theoretician, this book is on your bookshelf already.
This book quite complete review of relational database science as of 1995. In many cases, when studying particular subject I get away with original research papers available at citeseer and elsewhere, but often I find that it's much quicker just to open the Alice book at the right place.
In a word, if you are a DBA, you don't need this book and won't be able to understand 99% of it, but if you are database theoretician, this book is on your bookshelf already.
This book quite complete review of relational database science as of 1995. In many cases, when studying particular subject I get away with original research papers available at citeseer and elsewhere, but often I find that it's much quicker just to open the Alice book at the right place.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
go ask Alice, I think she'll know...
17 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
The aliased named 'Alice Book' is still the gold standard in database design. However it is not an easy read; some database background is required to understand content and is useful mostly only as a reference. It would help if a more updated version of this text was available; however as is it is still very relevant (especially in consideration of the fact that nothing much has changed in database technology in the past 30 years or so...)
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