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Ramakrishnan, Raghu

Database management systems / Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke - 3rd ed - Boston : McGraw-Hill, ℗♭2003 - xxxii, 1065 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1005-1044) and indexes

Part I: Foundations. Overview of database systems ; Introduction to database design ; The relational model ; Relational algebra and calculus ; SQL : queries, constraints, triggers -- Part II: Application development. Database application development ; Internet applications -- Part II: Storage and indexing. Overview of storage and indexing ; Storing data : disks and files ; Tree-structured indexing ; Hash-based indexing -- Part IV: Query evaluation. Overview of query evaluation ; External sorting ; Evaluating relational operators ; A typical relational query optimizer -- Part V: Transaction management. Overview of transaction management ; Concurrency control ; Crash recovery -- Part VI: Database design and tuning. Schema refinement and normal forms ; Physical database design and tuning ; Security and authorization -- Part VII: Additional topics. Parallel and distributed databases ; Object-database systems ; Deductive databases ; Data warehousing and decision support ; Data mining ; Information retrieval and XML data ; Spatial data management ; Further reading ; The minibase software

Designed for an introductory database course, this text emphasises conceptual and physical database design and tuning. It also covers advanced topics that may be useful for further study

ISBN: 0072465638 9780072465631 0071151109 9780071151108 0071230572 9780071230575 9780071231510 007123151X

LCCN: 2002075205

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA317266 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Database management

LC Class. No.: QA76.9.D3 / R237 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 005.74

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 518.464