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Database System Concepts
"Database System Concepts," 5/e, is intended for a first course in databases at the junior or senior undergraduate, or first-year graduate, level. In addition to basic material for a first course, the text contains advanced material that can be used for course supplements, or as introductory material for an advanced course.
The authors assume only a familiarity with basic d ...more
The authors assume only a familiarity with basic d ...more
Hardcover, 1142 pages
Published
June 1st 2005
by McGraw-Hill Education
(first published March 1st 1987)
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This book teaches about the inner workings, the nuts and bolts of databases without requiring a lot of prior knowledge:
Data Models
Relational Databases
Object Based Databases and XML
Data Storage and Querying
Transaction Management
Database System Architecture
Personally I feel that some material doesn’t belong here, such as XML, but it seems to be a tradition to include it. I found the chapter on indices quite interesting.
At the end of the book there are several chapters on popular commercial d ...more
Data Models
Relational Databases
Object Based Databases and XML
Data Storage and Querying
Transaction Management
Database System Architecture
Personally I feel that some material doesn’t belong here, such as XML, but it seems to be a tradition to include it. I found the chapter on indices quite interesting.
At the end of the book there are several chapters on popular commercial d ...more

Mar 08, 2011
Amanda Sastri
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
college-shit,
punya-dong
Gw beli di Palasari dalam format buku asli. Asli tapi bekas. Dapet dengan harga Rp 150.000. Pake duid ortu, jarang gw baca, gw eneg ma Database dan dari segi penjelasan ngejelimet dan... kayaknya ga nyambung ama apa yang dijelasin dosen gw.
Database gw dapet C. Alhamdulillah.
Database gw dapet C. Alhamdulillah.

Dec 02, 2014
Readerbug
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Oct 30, 2008
Irfin
rated it
liked it
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Computer science students
Recommended to Irfin by:
Dr. Bernhard Sitohang
This book was used in my Manajemen Informasi class during 2003-2004. As indicated by its title, this book has an in-depth explanation about database system concepts. Though I never read this book completely, but I definitely sure it's a good text book for learning database system.

Jul 23, 2007
Faizal
rated it
it was amazing
Recommends it for:
sapa aja yang mau belajar konsep database
Shelves:
komputer
buku ini sangat lengkap dalam membahas dasar hingga penggunaan database pada tahap ahli. data mining, data warehousing, vector database, dsb...ada di sini. Layak untuk dibaca

Oct 27, 2015
Luis GC
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
programming,
reference
Un buen libro de texto sobre Bases de Datos
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Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE F ...more
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