Database Management Systems

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McGraw-Hill, 2003 - Database management - 1065 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Pt. I Foundations 1 1 Overview of Database Systems 3 2 Introduction to Database Design 25 3 The Relational Model 57 4 Relational Algebra and Calculus 100 5 SQL: Queries, Constraints, Triggers 130 Pt. II Application Development 183 6 Database Application Development 185 7 Internet Applications 220 Pt. III Storage and Indexing 271 8 Overview of Storage and Indexing 273 9 Storing Data: Disks and Files 304 10 Tree-Structured Indexing 338 11 Hash-Based Indexing 370 Pt. IV Query Evaluation 391 12 Overview of Query Evaluation 393 13 External Sorting 421 14 Evaluating Relational Operators 439 15 A Typical Relational Query Optimizer 478 Pt. V Transaction Management 517 16 Overview of Transaction Management 519 17 Concurrency Control 549 18 Crash Recovery 579 Pt. VI Database Design and Tuning 603 19 Schema Refinement and Normal Forms 605 20 Physical Database Design and Tuning 649 21 Security and Authorization 692 Pt. VII Additional Topics 723 22 Parallel and Distributed Databases 725 23 Object-Database Systems 772 24 Deductive Databases 817 25 Data Warehousing and Decision Support 846 26 Data Mining 889 27 Information Retrieval and XML Data 926 28 Spatial Data Management 968 29 Further Reading 992 30 The Minibase Software 1002 References 1005 Author Index 1045 Subject Index 1054.

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