He has turned his course text into a free book at:
http://bookboon.com/uk/student/it/an-introduction-to-relational-database-theory
It is rather unique, being more self-contained and therefore
approachable than many other books on the subject, also short and

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and
students
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I'm looking for a solution for the following scenario:
- System running on multiple servers (could be dozens)
- Each server is running IIS and contains logs
The solution is a way to easily provide analysis reports on a combined

I'm looking for any references, discussion or theory about
hierarchical models for situations such as residential addresses,
geopolitical subdivisions, corporate structures, military ranks, file
systems, type systems, etc.

Recently I found this article on the internet
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~rui/publication/vldb08_TransactionTimeIndexing.pdf
and have decided to write a reply on the following Reinier’s message
from a union is always a join! :

Walter, you've really got me going today.  Here's more oversell from the
www originator at
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web&print=true
"The Semantic Web will enable machines to COMPREHEND semantic documents

Since the entity integrity rule ensures that a relational table cannot have
any duplicate rows, does that imply that each row in a table maps to a
distinct entity?

Is there "genuine" disagreement on what 1NF, 2NF and 3NF mean? Or is
the variety of contradictory in-print definitions of Normal Forms due
to sloppy thinking, slopping writing, or plain old ignorance from
authors? Also, where can I find an accurate, concise (less than 3

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1) Are there competing UML Data Modeling profiles (for relational
databases) or is only one being considered? One of Scott's articles
mentions that an
official data modeling profile RFP appeared at OMG in December, 2005.

Since Keith popped up recently, I'm interesting in reopening the
question of whether a function is a relation (I have a small point to
add).
I'm interpreting "is a" in the same way as D&D.  i.e. the question is

I have a problem with wrapping my mind into the 'right' wrinkles.
I need to come up with a database design  in SQL/MSAccess,
since that's the tool that is available to me. The subject of the
database is an inventory of electronic instruments, and the