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Databases come in many flavors. We use databases in our daily activities such as airline reservations, banking transactions via an ATM machine, searching information in the Internet by using a search engine, borrowing books from a library, etc. Have you ever thought about where and how the data are accessed and managed?
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Lin, W., Veeravalli, B. (2003). Introduction to Distributed Database Systems. In: Object Management in Distributed Database Systems for Stationary and Mobile Computing Environments. Network Theory and Applications, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9176-8_1
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