Business rules are transforming the design of enterprise database systems, enabling companies to achieve dramatic benefits in speed, flexibility, productivity, and platform-independence. In What Not How, C. J. Date -- one of the world\'s leading database experts -- offers the first concise, non-technical introduction to business rules....

Date on Database: Writings 2000--2006 captures some of the freshest thinking from widely known and respected relational database pioneer C. J. Date....

Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use of database systems. Whether you\'re using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, The Relational Database Dictionary will prevent confusion about the precise meaning of database-related terms (e.g....

This book sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, which is fundamental to all database-backed applications--and, consequently, most of the work that goes on in the computing world today. Database in Depth: The Relational Model for Practitioners goes beyond the hype and gets to the heart of how relational databases actually work....

Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data....