Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems

✍ Scribed by Dr. S. Sumathi, S. Esakkirajan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 793
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 47
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Information is a valuable resource to an organization. Computer software provides an efficient means of processing information, and database systems are becoming an increasingly common means by which it is possible to store and retrieve information in an effective manner. This book provides comprehensive coverage of fundamentals of database management systems. This book is for those who wish a better understanding of relational data modeling, its purpose, its nature, and the standards used in creating relational data models.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Overview of Database Management System....Pages 1-30
Entity–Relationship Model....Pages 31-63
Relational Model....Pages 65-110
Structured Query Language....Pages 111-212
PL/SQL....Pages 213-282
Database Design....Pages 283-317
Transaction Processing and Query Optimization....Pages 319-352
Database Security and Recovery....Pages 353-379
Physical Database Design....Pages 381-413
Data Mining and Data Warehousing....Pages 415-475
Objected-Oriented and Object Relational DBMS....Pages 477-558
Distributed and Parallel Database Management Systems....Pages 559-609
Recent Challenges in DBMS....Pages 611-643
Projects in DBMS....Pages 645-697
Back Matter....Pages 699-776

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)