Fundamentals of Database Systems: International Edition, 4/E

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Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington
Shamkant B. Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 1009 pp

ISBN-10: 0321204484
ISBN-13: 9780321204486

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Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL MODELING.

1. Databases and Database Users.

2. Database System Concepts and Architecture.

3. Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship Model.

4. Enhanced Entity-Relationship and UML Modeling.

II. RELATIONAL MODEL: CONCEPTS, CONSTRAINTS, LANGUAGES, DESIGN, AND PROGRAMMING.

5. The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints.

6. Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus.

7. Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping.

8. SQL99-Schema Definition, Constraints, and Queries.

9. More SQL-Assertions, Views, and Programming Techniques.

III. DATABASE DESIGN THEORY AND METHODOLOGY.

10. Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases.

11. Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies.

12. Practical Database Design Methodology Using UML.

IV. DATA STORAGE, INDEXING, QUERY PROCESSING, AND PHYSICAL DESIGN.

13. Disk Organization, Basic File Structures, and Hashing.

14. Indexing Structures for Files.

15. Algorithms for Query Processing and Optimization.

16. Physical Database Design and Tuning.

V. TRANSACTION PROCESSING CONCEPTS.

17. Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory.

18. Concurrency Control Techniques.

19. Database Recovery Techniques.

VI. OBJECT AND OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASES.

20. Object Database Concepts.

21. The ODMG Standard for Object Databases.

22. Object-Relational Systems and SQL3.

VII. FURTHER TOPICS.

23. Database Security, Authorization, and Encryption.

24. Enhanced Data Models for Advanced Applications.

25. Distributed Databases and Client-Server Architectures.

VIII. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.

26. Internet Databases and XML.

27. Data Warehousing and Data Mining Concepts.

28. Emerging Database Technologies and Applications.

Appendix A. Alternative Diagrammatic Notations for ER models.

Appendix B. Database Design and Application Implementation Case Study.

(New appendix on the Web including a detailed database design case study).

Appendix C. Parameters of Disks (old Appendix B).

Appendix D. The QBE Language (old section 9.5).

Appendix E. Hierarchical Data Model (old Appendix C dropped - moved to Web).

Appendix F. Network Data Model (old Appendix D dropped - moved to Web).

Bibliographic References.

Index.