Paul Linehan wrote:
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> I know that this newsgroup is generally about designing databases, in
> the sense of how should my tables be organised? What I am trying to do
> is to read about how to design an RDBMS itself.
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> Does anybody know of URLs or other references to this topic?
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Book: "Database Design" by Gio Wiederhold. What he's writing about is
how to design a DBMS, itself, not how to design an application to run on
one. And even this book doesn't go heavily enough into the vital role
played by the data dictionary/catalogue/system tables in relational
DBMS.
Mark
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 15:25:28 CST
