Re: Develop a simple database in Java tutorial?

From: Christophe Vanfleteren (c.v4nfl3t3r3n_at_pandora.be)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:29:40 GMT

swosh wrote:

> To be more precise: I know how to use a database, I used SQL for some time
> and I read a theoretical book about database management systems. The
> problem with this books is that it's well very theoritical - it talks a
> lot about relational algebra, index structures, b-trees, transaction
> management and so on, but without any practical examples. I wish I could
> find some explained example e.g. how the data is actually stored in a
> table, how a simple indexing technique looks like or how to parse simple
> SQL statements. And above all how all this works together.

Look at HSQLDB (hsqldb.sf.net). It is an opensource database written in
Java. You might learn a few things from looking at its code. 

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Kind regards,
Christophe Vanfleteren