Database Management Systems / Edition 2
by Raghu RamakrishnanView All Available Formats & Editions
ISBN-10: 0072322063
ISBN-13: 9780072322064
Pub. Date: 09/28/1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Designed for an introductory database course, this new text emphasizes conceptual and physical database design and tuning. Database Management Systems also covers advanced topics that can be used for a second course in database. These topics include parallel and distributed database systems, transaction processing, decision support, object-relational systems, and
Overview
Designed for an introductory database course, this new text emphasizes conceptual and physical database design and tuning. Database Management Systems also covers advanced topics that can be used for a second course in database. These topics include parallel and distributed database systems, transaction processing, decision support, object-relational systems, and active and deductive database systems.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780072322064
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Companies, The
- Publication date:
- 09/28/1999
- Edition description:
- Older Edition
- Pages:
- 936
- Product dimensions:
- 7.66(w) x 9.44(h) x 1.75(d)
Table of Contents
Part I Basics1 Introduction to Database Systems
2 The Entity-Relationship Model
3 The Relational Model
Part II Relational Queries
4 Relational Algebra and Calculus
5 SQL: The Query Language
6 Query-By-Example (QBE)
Part III Data Storage and Indexing
7 Storing Data: Disks and Files
8 File Organizations and Indexes
9 Tree-Structured Indexing
10 Hash-Based Indexing
Part IV Query Evaluation
11 External Sorting
12 Evaluation of Relational Operators
13 Introduction to Query Optimization
14 A Typical Relational Query Optimizer
Part V Database Design
15 Schema Refinement and Normal Forms
16 Physical Database Design and Tuning
17 Security
Part VI Transaction Management
18 Transaction Management Overview
19 Concurrency Control
20 Crash Recovery
Part VII Advanced Topics
21 Parallel and Distributed Databases
22 Object-Database Systems
23 Internet Databases
24 Decision Support
25 Data Mining
26 Deductive and Active Databases
27 Additional Topics
(and more...)
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