Database Management Systems, Third edition

Database Management Systems, known for its practical emphasis and comprehensive coverage, has quickly become one of the leading texts for database courses. The third edition features new material on database application development, with a focus on Internet applications. The hands on approach introduces students to current standards, including JDBC, XML and 3-tier application architectures.

Salient Features:

A new, flexible organization allows instructors to teach either an applications oriented course or anintroductory systems-oriented course.
The revised “part” organization with new overview chapters makes it easy to select the chapters you need in-depth chapters within each part can be optional.
NEW Material on Database Applications

Table of Content:

Part - I: Foundations

Overview of Database Systems
Introduction to Database Design
The Relational Model
Relational Algebra and Calculus
SQL: Queries, Constraints, Triggers

Part - II: Application Development

Database Application Development
Internet Applications

Part - III: Storage and Indexing

Overview of Storage and Indexing
Storing Data: Disks and Files
Tree-Structured Indexing
Hash-Based Indexing

Part - IV: Query Evaluation

Overview of Query Evaluation
External Sorting
Evaluating Relational Operators
A Typical Relational Query Optimizer

Part - V: Transaction Management

Overview of Transaction Management
Concurrency Control
Crash Recovery

Part - VI: Database Design and Tuning

Schema Refinement and Normal Forms
Physical Database Design and Tuning
Security and Authorization

Part - VII: Additional Topics

Parallel and Distributed Databases
Object-Database Systems
Deductive Databases
Data Warehousing and Decision Support
Data Mining
Information Retrieval and XML Data
Spatial Data Management
Further Reading
The Minibase Software

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