Re: How to write a toy database?

This is a book that explains the internals of databases:

H. Garcia-Molina, J. Ullman, and J. Widom. Database System Implementation. Prentice-Hall, 2000.

However, I'm not sure this is what you're looking for.

Valter Ferraz Sanches wrote:
> I'm writing a dummy application that needs a database. I don't want to
> tie it to a SQL server, so I would like to build a "toy" dummy
> database, just for my purporses.
>
> I would like to know how to write the files to be accessed and which
> is the best algorithm to do the data mining. I used to use an ASCII
> text file with fields separated by ":". The queries were made opening
> and reopening the data file and matching its contents against the
> query. It's stupid, in my opinion, but I have a big lack of knowledge
> in databases, so it was the bast solution for that moment.
>
> Could someone points me a book, a web page or some source code
> (Python, C/C++, Perl, Tcl or even VB and Delphi) to help me understand
> how stuff works?
>
> I'll be happy if someone could send a "cc" to my mail.
>
> TIA! Sorry about my broken English...
>
> Valter <vfs_at_mail.com>
Received on Mon Mar 25 2002 - 13:56:11 CET