Database Systems: The Complete Book, 2nd Edition

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Features

• Many real-world examples.

  • Offers a readable and engaging presentation.

• Extensive treatment of database modeling–Includes detailed and separate explanations of how to use E/R and ODL to design databases.

  • Teaches about this important first step of the planning process.

• Excellent, detailed coverage of SQL–Includes coverage of object-relational systems and many aspects of the new SQL:1999 standard.

  • Provides a more extensive treatment of query processing than other books on the market.

• Discussion of the technologies used to connect database programming with C or Java code–Includes discussions of SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, and JDBC.

  • Gives students practical advice on integrating state-of-the-art technologies with databases.

• Coverage of advanced issues important to database designers and users.

  • Includes discussions of views, integrity constraints, assertions, triggers, transactions, authorisation, and recursion in SQL:1999.

• Discussions of how to successfully plan a database application before building it.

  • Reflects how these plans are developed in the real world.

• Coverage of topics such as designing storage structures and implementing a variety of indexing schemes.

  • Shows students how to build efficient database management systems.

• Extensive coverage of query processing and optimisation.

  • Shows students how to fine tune database systems to improve performance.

• Comprehensive coverage of transaction processing mechanisms for concurrency control and recovery, including distributed and long-duration transactions.

  • Shows how to design complex database systems that can handle real-world business applications.

• Coverage of information integration, including data warehousing, mediation, OLAP, data-cube systems, and data mining.

  • Exposes readers to cutting edge technology used in business applications.

• Extensive exercises–In almost every section.

  • Provides students with the opportunity to practice and apply the concepts they've learned in each chapter.

Description

Database Systems: The Complete Book is ideal for Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. A basic understanding of algebraic expressions and laws, logic, basic data structure, OOP concepts, and programming environments is implied.

Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems.
 
The first half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer. It covers the latest database standards SQL:1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts. The second half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor. It focuses on storage structures, query processing, and transaction management. The book covers the main techniques in these areas with broader coverage of query optimization than most other texts, along with advanced topics including multidimensional and bitmap indexes, distributed transactions, and information integration techniques.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• 1 The Worlds of Database Systems
• 2 The Relational Model of Data
• 3 Design Theory for Relational Databases
• 4 High-Level Database Models
• 5 Algebraic and Logical Query Languages
• 6 The Database Language SQL
• 7 Constraints and Triggers
• 8 Views and Indexes
• 9 SQL in a Server Environment
• 10 Advanced Topics in Relational Databases
• 11 The Semistructured-Data Model
• 12 Programming Languages for XML
• 13 Secondary Storage Management
• 14 Index Structures
• 15 Query Execution
• 16 The Query Compiler
• 17 Coping With System Failures
• 18 Concurrency Control
• 19 More About Transaction Management
• 20 Parallel and Distributed Databases
• 21 Information Integration
• 22 Data Mining
• 23 Database Systems and the Internet

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