Principles of dat-base management /
James Martin
- 1a. ed.
- New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, 1976
- 352 p. : il .
Part I WHY DATA BASE? 1. Corporate data Base. -- 2. Data Basic. -- 3. Categories of Data Usage. -- 4. Flexibility and Independence. -- 5. The Changing View of Data. -- 6. Operations Systems versus Information Systems. -- Part II DATA ORGANIZATION 7. Schemas and Subschemas. -- 8. Tree and Plex Structure. -- 9. Relational Data Bases. -- 10. File Addressing. -- 11. Searching. -- 12. Distributed Data Bases. -- Part III DATA-BASE SOFTWARE 13. Types of Dta-Base Languages. -- 14. Data-Base Management Systems. -- 15. The CODASYL Data Description Language. -- 16. IBMs Data Language/I. -- 17. Query Languages. -- 18. Data Dictionaries. -- Part IV MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS 19. Infrastructure. -- 20. Evolution. --21. The Data Administrator and Data-Bases Administrators. -- 22. Security and Privacy. -- 23. Information Quality. -- 24. Management Information Systems. -- 25. Resistance to Rational Systems. -- 26. Epilogue : How to Succed. -- Glosary. -- References. -- Index.