Book
Object and relational databases
- G. Gardarin
- EYROLLES, 824 pages
It is becoming increasingly necessary to understand database principles, information system
architectures, data modeling, querying and updating languages, query optimization and
control techniques, database design methods and transaction management. This book provides
a clearly written, profound and at the same time didactic synthesis of the set of knowledge in
the area of databases indispensable for computer professionals. The book covers both
classical and relational systems, as well as the more modern object and object-relational
systems. It will be completed by an additional 240 page volume dealing with recent trends:
Web DB, multimedia DB, data warehouse and data mining.
Georges Gardarin, Professor at the University of Versailles St-Quentin, is scientific advisor
to project Rodin at INRIA Rocquencourt
Open Software
Liberty, Equality, Business
- Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes, Benoît Faucon
- Preface by Bernard Lang
- EDISPHER, 256 pages
Open software is primarily software whose source code is accessible to anyone, so that
developers throughout the world might number in the thousands. Tools were the result of this
congenial happenstance, but their performance leaves nothing to be desired in comparison
with big company products. This book is for all those who are interested in all the legal,
political, technical, and economic aspects of open software.
Bernard Lang is scientific head of project Atoll at INRIA Rocquencourt
* Rediscover this article in INédit number 20 (july 99) in
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