by Yen-Hui Hung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Background ® / Chapter 2.1 --- Multilingual Information Processing --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Codesets --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Converters --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Collations --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Internationalization and Localization --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- OBST --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Related Work --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Sybase --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Oracle --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- COBASE --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- SQL92 Standard --- p.15 / Chapter 3 --- Defects of Existing Systems and Proposed Language Extensions --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Defects of Existing Methods - Locale Model --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Defects of SQL92 --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3 --- Proposed Language Extensions --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Inserting tuples --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Updating tuples --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Querying (Retrieving tuples) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- String matching --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Performing Joins --- p.28 / Chapter 3.3.6 --- Sorting and Indexing --- p.30 / Chapter 4 --- DBMS Design and Implementation --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1 --- System Architecture --- p.34 / Chapter 4.2 --- Lexical Analyzer and Parser --- p.36 / Chapter 4.3 --- Database Objects --- p.37 / Chapter 4.4 --- Data Dictionary --- p.39 / Chapter 4.5 --- Character Objects Related Facilities --- p.41 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Codesets --- p.42 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Collations --- p.46 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Converters --- p.48 / Chapter 4.6 --- Indexing --- p.50 / Chapter 4.7 --- Query Processor --- p.52 / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Join --- p.54 / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Sorting tuples - the order by clause --- p.54 / Chapter 4.7.3 --- "Group Structure, Aggregate Functions and Projection" --- p.55 / Chapter 4.8 --- Scalar and Conditional Expressions --- p.56 / Chapter 4.8.1 --- Representation of Scalar and Condition Expressions --- p.57 / Chapter 4.8.2 --- Implementations --- p.58 / Chapter 4.9 --- User Interface --- p.59 / Chapter 5 --- Case Study - A Bookshop --- p.62 / Chapter 5.1 --- Creating tables and inserting tuples --- p.62 / Chapter 5.2 --- Updating Tuples --- p.65 / Chapter 5.3 --- Querying --- p.65 / Chapter 5.4 --- String Matching --- p.66 / Chapter 5.5 --- Performing Joins --- p.67 / Chapter 5.6 --- Ordering Display --- p.68 / Chapter 5.7 --- Indexing --- p.70 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.73 / Bibliography --- p.76 / Chapter A --- Grammer Rules --- p.79 / Chapter A.1 --- Data Definition Language --- p.79 / Chapter A.2 --- Data Manipulation Language --- p.82 / Chapter A.3 --- Condition Expressions --- p.83 / Chapter A.4 --- Scalar Expressions --- p.84 / Chapter A.5 --- Data Type --- p.85 / Chapter A.6 --- Names and Identifiers --- p.87 / Chapter A.7 --- Lexical Element --- p.88 / Chapter B --- Programmers' Guide --- p.90 / Chapter B.l --- Charset.obst --- p.92 / Chapter B.2 --- Table.obst --- p.95 / Chapter B.3 --- dbSchema.obst --- p.101 / Chapter B.4 --- dbEnv.obst --- p.103 / Chapter B.5 --- Query.obst --- p.104 / Chapter B.6 --- Misc.obst and External.obst --- p.117 / Chapter B.7 --- Main --- p.118 / Chapter B.8 --- RPC interfaces --- p.120 / Chapter C --- Installation Manual --- p.122 / Chapter C.l --- Steps to install the DBMS server --- p.123 / Chapter C.2 --- Steps to install the WWW client --- p.124 / Chapter D --- User Manual --- p.125 / Chapter D.l --- User Interface Layout --- p.125 / Chapter D.2 --- Steps in Performing Database Operations --- p.128 / Chapter D.2.1 --- Creating new tables --- p.129 / Chapter D.2.2 --- Browsing existing tables --- p.131 / Chapter D.2.3 --- Inserting new records --- p.131 / Chapter D.2.4 --- Deleting records --- p.132 / Chapter D.2.5 --- Creating indexes --- p.132 / Chapter D.2.6 --- Showing existing schemas and tables --- p.133
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322720 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Contributors | Hung, Yen-Hui., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, xii, 133 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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