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Before a database can be designed and implemented for general purposes, it becomes necessary to consider the different levels of data analysis which must be carried out. In order to appreciate the relationships between these, we will introduce and subsequently adopt a terminology pertinent to each level.

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Yannakoudakis, E.J. (1988). The Logic of the Database Environment. In: The Architectural Logic of Database Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1616-5_2

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