I am sorry the part that look Greek to you is actually fairly important base of the theory behind SQL, the relational algebra.
A possible answer to your question is the classic book: Database Systems, The complete book of Ullman et. all. It is comprehensive, so it should satisfy all your curiosities. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, all, > > i am looking for literature which describes the data/information > theory/formalisms behind sqlite and similar projects. Google has so far led > me to the extremes of "introduction to SQL" (don't need it) and articles > which start using Greek symbols in the 3rd paragraph (and which point my > brain shuts down). Can anyone suggest materials somewhere between these two > extremes? i'm not so much interested in implementation details as i am > about learning the theory behind the implementation details (after which > the implementation details will make more sense to me). > > :-? > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
