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Foundations of Databases

A book published by Addison Wesley

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Individual Chapters

  * Table of Contents
  * Chapter 1 - Database Systems
  * Chapter 2 - Theoretical Background
  * Chapter 3 - The Relational Model
  * Chapter 4 - Conjunctive Queries
  * Chapter 5 - Adding Negation: Algebra and Calculus
  * Chapter 6 - Static Analysis and Optimization
  * Chapter 7 - Notes on Practical Languages
  * Chapter 8 - Functional and Join Dependency
  * Chapter 9 - Inclusion Dependency
  * Chapter 10 - A Larger Perspective
  * Chapter 11 - Design and Dependencies
  * Chapter 12 - Datalog
  * Chapter 13 - Evaluation of Datalog
  * Chapter 14 - Recursion and Negation
  * Chapter 15 - Negation in Datalog
  * Chapter 16 - Sizing Up Languages
  * Chapter 17 - First Order, Fixpoint and While
  * Chapter 18 - Highly Expressive Languages
  * Chapter 19 - Incomplete Information
  * Chapter 20 - Complex Values
  * Chapter 21 - Object Databases
  * Chapter 22 - Dynamic Aspects
  * Bibliography
  * Index

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Authors Information

        Serge Abiteboul,
        Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
        Rocquencourt, France
        Serge.Abiteboul@inria.fr
        Serge Abiteboul's home page

        Richard Hull
        IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
        Hawthorne, NY
        hull@us.ibm.com
        Rick Hull's home page

        Victor Vianu
        University of California, San Diego
        San Diego, CA
        vianu@cs.ucsd.edu
        Victor Vianu's home page