Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals

by Lex DeHaan and Toon Koppelaars

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Relational databases hold data, right? They do indeed, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology. A far more powerful way of thinking lies in relational technology's foundation in the mathematical disciplines of logic and set theory.

Databases contain truths or propositions describing some area of interest such as a business. Those truths are organized into sets. Operations from logic and set theory can be applied to existing sets of...

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  • ISBN13 9781430242840
  • Publish Date 20 December 2011 (first published 1 January 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint APress
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 404
  • Language English