Computer Science: An OverviewComputer Science: An Overview truly lives up to its title, providing a timely introduction to the entire computer science discipline. Broad coverage, combined with clear explanations, has made it the leading textbook for the breadth-first course. This book provides a balanced, realistic picture that communicates the dynamics of computer science by presenting topics in a historical perspective in which past developments, the current state of the art, and directions of research are discussed. The coverage of topics such as programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, software engineering, networking, database design, artificial intelligence, and machine architecture result in a complete overview of the field of computer science. |
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An Overview J. Glenn Brookshear. 9 Database Systems In this chapter we investigate database systems and learn how abstraction is used to allow database users to find and extract useful information from large complex data collections . We ...
... database remain duplicates of each other as updates occur . In turn , the study of distributed databases is a current area of research . Figure 9.1 A file versus a database organization a . 360 DATABASE SYSTEMS Database Fundamentals.
... database . A second advantage of separating the application software from the DBMS is that such an organization provides a means for controlling access to the database . By dic- tating that the DBMS perform all access to the database ...