Re: How to create a DBMS from scratch?

"Michael Gast" <mig-sm_at_web.de> wrote in message news:3DABC7BC.3040601_at_web.de...
> Hi Alan,
>
> look on firebird.sourceforge.net. Firebird is a free RDBMS and you can
> study all sources. In addition, i suggest you to have a look on the book
> 'Fundamentals of Database Systems' from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant
> Navathe, published by Addison Wesley.
>

I would also recommend reading 'Transaction processing: concepts and Techniques'Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter. it describes the basic concepts of tp monitors but has quite a complete chapter on indexing and locking.

> Alan Po schrieb:
> > Dear All
> >
> > When I am a Bachelor student in University, I have learned the structure
> > inside a DBMS. However, do not know anything about the internal
structure,
> > e.g. the program code of indexing, query and file structure of a
database.
> > Unfortunately, I am now studying Master course in University and my
> > assignment is to build an index file on XML data and design a query
language
> > on it. But how?
> >
> > Please help me. Would you give me any information on the web which help
me
> > to learn more about the programme code on the DBMS?
>
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Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 11:19:06 CEST