Database Servers
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1 Introduction 2 Relational databases 3 SQL 4 Database servers 4.1 Functions 4.2 Stored procedures 4.3 Referential integrity 4.4 Relational middleware 5 Distributed databases 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Problems with distributed data 5.3 Types of distribution 6 Programming databases 6.1 The basic classes 6.2 Processing steps 6.3 Some support classes 6.4 Prepared statements 6.5 Callable statements 6.6 Metadata 7 Object to database mapping 8 The anatomy of a database server 8.1 Setting up the server 8.2 Monitoring the server 8.3 Programming 9 Summary 10 Further reading References
Chapter contents
This chapter looks at one of the most important servers that can be found in a distributed system: an SQL server. Such a server services requests which are expressed in a programming language known as SQL. The chapter