Object relational and object oriented database concepts and systems. Incl. 1 CD-ROM (Q2757279)

First the author gives an overview over database systems and object orientation including fundamentals of terminology and the development process of object oriented database applications. The concept of object orientation is demonstrated step by step with SQL:99 as example. The second approach is the Object Data Management Group standard. Definition, logical design, queries and data manipulation are explained in detail. A discussion about performance and its improvement is included. Each chapter ends with a presentation of results and literature references, The last part consists of a Web based object oriented database application. The author concentrates his illustrations on two main examples, a database for publications and a car sharing system. The book is extremely useful for students or database programmers and developers, who are familiar with relational databases and object oriented programming. They will get deep knowledge and practical experience with object relational and object oriented database systems. A CD with software and examples is included.