| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introductory database concepts | 1 |
| 2 | Database planning and database architecture | 66 |
| 3 | The entity-relationship model | 119 |
| 4 | The relational model | 168 |
| 5 | Normalization | 226 |
| 6 | Relational database management systems and SQL | 286 |
| 7 | The enhanced entity-relationship model and the object-relational model | 373 |
| 8 | The object-oriented model | 431 |
| 9 | Introduction to database security | 466 |
| 10 | Transaction management | 492 |
| 11 | Relational query optimization | 533 |
| 12 | Distributed databases | 571 |
| 13 | Database and the internet | 626 |
| 14 | Social and ethical issues | 673 |
| 15 | Data warehouses and data mining | 732 |
| App. A | Physical data organization | 761 |
| App. B | The network model | 790 |
| App. C | The hierarchical model | 820 |
| Bibliography | 847 | |
| Index | 855 |
Overview