| Fundamentals of Database Systems Revised Edition Contributor(s): Elmasri, Ramez (Author), Navathe, Shamkant (Author) |
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ISBN: 0133970779 ISBN-13: 9780133970777 Publisher: Pearson OUR PRICE: $215.32 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Databases - General - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval |
| Dewey: 005.74 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 7.6" W x 9.2" (4.05 lbs) 1280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Key Benefit: This book introduces the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and database applications. Our presentation stresses the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and models provided by the database management systems, and database system implementation techniques. The book is meant to be used as a textbook for a one- or two-semester course in database systems at the junior, senior, or graduate level, and as a reference book. The goal is to provide an in-depth and up-to-date presentation of the most important aspects of database systems and applications, and related technologies. It is assumed that readers are familiar with elementary programming and data-structuring concepts and that they have had some exposure to the basics of computer organization. Key Topics: Databases and Database Users; Database Systems Concepts and Architecture; Data Modeling Using the Entity Relationship (ER) Model; The Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) Model; The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints; Basic SQL; More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification; The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus; Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping; Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques; Web Database Programming Using PHP; Object and Object-Relational Databases; XLM: Extensible Markup Language; Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases; Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies; Disc Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures; Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design; Strategies for Query Processing; Query Optimization; Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory; Concurrency Control Techniques; Database Recovery Techniques; Distributed Database Concepts; NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems; Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop; Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases; Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search; Data Mining Concepts; Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP; Database Security Market This book is a useful reference for anyone studying database systems in computer science. |