Web Database Systems

The book examines databases and web connectivity. It begins by introducing the reader to the basic notions of mainstream database technologies, in particular relational, object and object relations. It then proceeds to examine web technology, its architecture, protocols and operation. A detailed examination of web/database connectivity and applications engineering follows.

Key features

• Full web support featuring exercises, solutions to exercises, links to related web sites and illustrations
• International and de facto standards used throughout
• Not platform specific, general solutions that can be used on many database systems using Java and Perl
• Covering the important concepts and principles as well as current products and technologies

1. Introduction to Web database Systems
1.1 Database technology
1.2 The Internet and the web
1.3 Web databases
1.4 Summary

Part 1: Databases
2. Data Models and Relational Databases
2.1What is a data model?
2.2 Relational databases
2.3 Summary
3. New Database Technologies
3.1 Limitations of relational databases
3.2 Object databases
3.3 Object-relational databases
3.4 Persistent programming languages
3.5 Summary

Part 2: The Web
4. Web Technology
4.1 The Web - basic concepts
4.2 How does a user put information on the Web
4.3 An HTML tutorial
4.4 Presentation and processing of Web pages
4.5 Dynamic Web pages
4.6 New developments
4.7 Summary

Part 3: Web Databases
5. Web Database Design
5.1 The Web database design process
5.2 Data analysis
5.3 Conceptual modelling of Web pages
5.4 Data design
5.5 Web data design
5.6 Summary
6. Implementation of Web Databases
6.1 Physical database design
6.2 Web database connectivity
6.3 Client processing
6.4 Server processing
6.5 Java
6.6 Web database implementation choices
6.7 state and transactions
6.8 security, privacy and identity
6.9 A Web site in a database
6.10 Summary