Emphasizing the concepts and technical issues related to distributed databases, this book prepares students for successful development of distributed database management systems. The text offers a comprehensive treatment of technical problems from a holistic viewpoint, provides a balanced treatment of the theoretical and sytems aspects of distributed database systems, and presents distributed database systems within the framework of distributed data processing in general. In addition, it covers the latest distributed database systems, and addresses current research issues such as multidatabase systems, distributed knowledge bases, distributed object-oriented databases and database server architectures.
