Tìm hiểu để sử dụng lý thuyết tập hợp và logic để thiết kế cơ sở dữ liệu và các quy tắc kinh doanh của họ một cách hiệu quả, và để giao tiếp một cách chính xác về những mẫu thiết kế với các bên liên quan khác. Toán học ứng dụng dành cho các chuyên gia cơ sở dữ liệu | THE EXPERT S VOICE IN DATABASE Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals Learn to use set theory and logic to design databases and their business rules effectively and to communicate precisely about those designs with other stakeholders. Lex de Haan and Toon Koppelaars Foreword by Hugh Darwen and Chris Date Apress Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals Lex de Haan and Toon Koppelaars Apress Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals Copyright 2007 by Lex de Haan and Toon Koppelaars All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 978-1-59059-745-3 ISBN-10 1-59059-745-1 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor Jonathan Gennick Technical Reviewers Chris Date Cary Millsap Editorial Board Steve Anglin Ewan Buckingham Gary Cornell Jonathan Gennick Jason Gilmore Jonathan Hassell Chris Mills Matthew Moodie Jeffrey Pepper Ben Renow-Clarke Dominic Shakeshaft Matt Wade Tom Welsh Project Manager Tracy Brown Collins Copy Edit Manager Nicole Flores Copy Editor Susannah Davidson Pfalzer Assistant Production Director Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor Kelly Winquist Compositor Dina Quan Proofreader April Eddy Indexer Brenda Miller Artist April Milne Cover Designer Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 233 Spring Street 6th Floor New York NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER fax 201-348-4505 e-mail orders-ny@ or visit http .