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In this chapter we describe some of the operational issues we would expect to find characterising the kernel of any DBMS. We shall discuss such features particularly with reference to relational DBMS. We begin however with a brief discussion of the physical storage of data on disk devices.
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© 1996 P. Beynon-Davies
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Beynon-Davies, P. (1996). DBMS-Kernel. In: Database Systems. Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13722-0_7
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