A first course in database systems

✍ Scribed by Ullman, Jeffrey D;Widom, Jennifer

• Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 516
• Edition: Third edition, Pearson new international edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior, and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. Written by well-known computer scientists, this accessible and succinct introduction to database systems focuses on database design and use. The authors provide in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer, leaving implementation for later courses. It is the first database systems text to cover such topics as UML, algorithms for manipulating dependencies in relations, extended relational algebra, PHP, 3-tier architectures, data cubes, XML, XPATH, XQuery, XSLT.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. The Worlds of Database Systems......Page 6
2. The Relational Model of Data......Page 19
3. Design Theory for Relational Databases......Page 68
4. High-Level Database Models......Page 125
5. Algebraic and Logical Query Languages......Page 203
6. The Database Language SQL......Page 242
7. Constraints and Triggers......Page 308
8. Views and Indexes......Page 338
9. SQL in a Server Environment......Page 366
10. Advanced Topics in Relational Databases......Page 421
11. The Semistructured-Data Model......Page 477
A......Page 510
C......Page 511
E......Page 512
M......Page 513
Q......Page 514
S......Page 515
Z......Page 516

✦ Subjects

Science;Computer Science;Technology;Technical;Reference;Computers;Textbooks