An Extended Entity-Relationship Model: Fundamentals and Pragmatics
Author:   Martin Gogolla
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Edition:   1994 ed.
Volume:   767
ISBN:  

9783540576488


Pages:   141
Publication Date:   28 January 1994
Format:   Paperback
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An Extended Entity-Relationship Model: Fundamentals and Pragmatics


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This text presents a comprehensive introduction to anextended Entity-Relationship model both on a conceptual andon a formal, mathematicallevel. In addition to theprimitives given by the data model the text introduces alanguage for the formulation of constraints in order torestrict database states to consistent ones. The textexplains an implementation of the approach chosen in thelogic programing language PROLOG and discusses in thiscontext the computational power of the proposedcalculus. The extended Entity-Relationship calculus is used to definethe meaning of the relational query language SQL. A nicefeature of the approach is that it becomes possible to provelanguage properties on a sound mathematical basis.

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Author:   Martin Gogolla
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   1994 ed.
Volume:   767
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9783540576488


ISBN 10:   3540576487
Pages:   141
Publication Date:   28 January 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Structure of data and entities.- Extended Entity-Relationship calculus.- PROLOG implementation.- Formal semantics of SQL.- Conclusions.

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