The use of SQL and second generation database management systems for data processing and information retrieval in libraries

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a database querying language that was codified as a standard by the American National Standards Institute. SQL is based on the relational modeling of data and is a language for retrieving subsets of the database according to search criteria. SQL is awkward as a dir...

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Published in:Information technology and libraries Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 400 - 407
Main Authors: LEIGH, W, PAZ, N
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL American Library Association 01.12.1989
Library and Information Technology Association
Subjects:
Applications
Client Server Architecture
Codification
Computation
Computer architecture
Computer languages
Computer Networks
Computer programming & languages
Computer simulation
Computerised information retrieval
Computerized information storage and retrieval
Computers
Data base management systems
Data mining
Data processing
Database Management Systems
Database searching
DBMS software
Electronic data processing
Exact sciences and technology
Implementations
Information and communication sciences
Information and document management systems
Information processing and retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval systems. Information and document management system
Information science. Documentation
Information services
Information storage and retrieval
Information work
Language
Language use
Libraries
Library automation
Local area networks
Mainframes
Management
Management Systems
Miscellaneous
National standards
On-line systems
Online Catalogs
Online information retrieval
Personal computers
Prices
Query languages
Retrieval
Sciences and techniques of general use
Searching
Second generation
Software
Standardization
Structured Query Language
Structured Query Language-SQL
Subject indexing
Subsets
Technical services
Technology application
Documentation data processing
Data processing language
Document retrieval system
Standardization
Information retrieval
Impact study
Library
Librarianship
Application
Database management system
Implementation
ISSN:0730-9295, 2163-5226
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Summary:Structured Query Language (SQL) is a database querying language that was codified as a standard by the American National Standards Institute. SQL is based on the relational modeling of data and is a language for retrieving subsets of the database according to search criteria. SQL is awkward as a direct interface for patron catalog searching. Free text and partial string search are possible with SQL, and this capability can accomplish keyword searching, although not without drawbacks. There are new SQL-interfacing products and techniques that can solve the problem of lack of direct SQL applicability to patron-user computing. A 2nd generation of database management systems has been spurred by SQL standardization. The orientation of these new systems is to distribute application on local area networks. Mainframe computer performance is made available at personal computer prices by this client-server architecture. This development has many implications for library computing.
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ISSN:0730-9295
2163-5226