Description
Designed as a textbook for students offering courses in computer science
engineering, master of computer applications (MCA) and for IT courses, this
comprehensive and up-to-date study gives a clear analysis of the applications of
both Oracle and Sybase-the enterprise class of relational databases. Realizing
the importance of modern topics for the IT-savvy readers, the author has devoted
separate chapters to the latest features of the database such as dynamic
hashing, replication, distributed databases, query optimization, auditing and
high availability subsystem. These are strategically and tactically very
important from the viewpoint of database performance, recovery, availability and
database adminis-tration. Besides, legacy databases, for example, hierarchical
IMS of IBM and network