Fundamentals of Database Systems

Features of the Third Edition :

• Presents clear and complete discussion of the relational approach including modeling, design, and query
  languages
  
• Reorganized material on data modeling to clearly separate entity relationship modeling, extended entity
  relationship modeling, and object-oriented modeling
  
• NEW! Gives examples of real database systems - Oracle and Microsoft Access - in Ch. 10
  
• NEW and EXPANDED! Provides coverage of the object-oriented and object relational approach to
  data management including ODMG and SQL3
  
• NEW! Includes discussion of decision support applications of data warehousing and data mining, as
  well as emerging technologies of web databases, multimedia, and mobile databases
  
• NEW! Covers advanced modeling in the areas of active, temporal, and spatial databases
  
• NEW! Discusses current database application areas of GIS, genome, and digital libraries
  

Part I: Basic Concepts

1: Databases and Database Users

2: Database System Concepts and Architecture

3: Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model

4: Enhanced Entity-Relationship

5: Record Storage and Primary File Organizations

6: Index Structures for Files

Part II: Relational Model, Languages, And Systems

7: The Relational Data Model, Constraints, and Relational Algebra

8: SQL - The Relational Database Standard

9: ER and EER-to-Relational Mapping, and Other Relational Languages

10: Examples of Relational Database Management Systems: Oracle and Microsoft Access

Part III: Object-Oriented and Extended Relational Database Technology

11: Concepts for Object-Oriented Databases

12: Object-Oriented Database Languages, Standards, and Programming

13: Object Relational and Extended Relational Databases

Part IV: Database Design Theory and Methodology

14: Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases

15: Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies

16: The Practice of Database Design and Design Tuning

Part V: System Implementation Techniques

17: Database System Architecture and the System Catalog

18: Query Processing and Optimization

19: Transaction Processing Concepts

20: Concurrency Control Techniques

21: Transaction Recovery Techniques

22: Database Security and Authorization

Part VI: Advanced Database Concepts & Emerging Applications

23: Enhanced Data Models for Advanced Applications

24: Distributed Databases and ClientPServer Architecture

25: Deductive Databases

26: Database Technology For Decision Support Applications

27: Emerging Database Technologies and Applications