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Database management systems / Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, ©2003Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxxii, 1065 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0072465638
  • 9780072465631
  • 0071151109
  • 9780071151108
  • 0071230572
  • 9780071230575
  • 9780071231510
  • 007123151X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Database management systems.; Online version:: Database management systems.DDC classification:
  • 005.74 RAM 2003 21
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.D3 R237 2003
Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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Book Book Symbiosis International University, Dubai 005.74 RAM 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available SIU00747

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

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