Many real-world examples.
- Offers a readable and engaging presentation.
Extensive treatment of database modeling–Includes detailed and separate explanations of how to use E/R and ODL to design databases.
- Teaches about this important first step of the planning process.
Excellent, detailed coverage of SQL–Includes coverage of object-relational systems and many aspects of the new SQL:1999 standard.
- Provides a more extensive treatment of query processing than other books on the market.
Discussion of the technologies used to connect database programming with C or Java code–Includes discussions of SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, and JDBC.
- Gives students practical advice on integrating state-of-the-art technologies with databases.
Coverage of advanced issues important to database designers and users.
- Includes discussions of views, integrity constraints, assertions, triggers, transactions, authorisation, and recursion in SQL:1999.
Discussions of how to successfully plan a database application before building it.
- Reflects how these plans are developed in the real world.
Coverage of topics such as designing storage structures and implementing a variety of indexing schemes.
- Shows students how to build efficient database management systems.
Extensive coverage of query processing and optimisation.
- Shows students how to fine tune database systems to improve performance.
Comprehensive coverage of transaction processing mechanisms for concurrency control and recovery, including distributed and long-duration transactions.
- Shows how to design complex database systems that can handle real-world business applications.
Coverage of information integration, including data warehousing, mediation, OLAP, data-cube systems, and data mining.
- Exposes readers to cutting edge technology used in business applications.
Extensive exercises–In almost every section.
- Provides students with the opportunity to practice and apply the concepts they've learned in each chapter.

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