An extended entity-relationship model
Subtitle: fundamentals and pragmatics
By: Martin Gogolla.
Series: Lecture notes in computer science ;; 767
Publisher: Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Entity-relationship modeling; Prolog (Computer program language); SQL (Computer program language)
Description: "This text presents a comprehensive introduction to an extended Entity-Relationship model both on a conceptual and on a formal, mathematicallevel. In addition to the primitives given by the data model the text introduces a language for the formulation of constraints in order to restrict database states to consistent ones. The text explains an implementation of the approach chosen in the logic programing language PROLOG and discusses in this context the computational power of the proposedcalculus. The extended Entity-Relationship calculus is used to define the meaning of the relational query language SQL. A nice feature of the approach is that it becomes possible to prove language properties on a sound mathematical basis."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-133) and index.