Re: Relational Algorithms

Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad_at_ebi.ac.uk> writes:

> checked www.amazon.com, but the book is out of print. Do you have any
> other book suggestions on RDBMS implementation/optimization. Cheers,

David Maier's Theory of Relational Databases is just that -- theory.

Anyone interested in database implementation should look at:

Database: Principles, Programming, and Performance, Second Edition by Patrick O'Neil, Elizabeth O'Neil
April 2000, 960 pages, Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 1-55860-438-3 http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-438-3 Note that the second edition has just come out, and the reviewers' comments at Amazon refer to the first edition.

For all the details, but unfortunately out of print, I recommend:

Database Design, Gio Wiederhold, McGraw-Hill, 1977. 007070130X

Or possibly the 2nd edition (March 1983) which I have not seen. I prefer this book to his more recent: File Organization for Database Design. 1987.

Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve

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