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Fundamentals of Database Systems, 7th edition

  • Ramez Elmasri, 
  • Shamkant B. Navathe

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Overview

Fundamentals of Database Systems introduces you to the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database (DB) systems and DB applications. The text provides an in-depth and up-to-date presentation of the most important aspects of DB systems and related technologies every programmer should know.

Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) - Copyright © 2016

ISBN-13: 9780137502523

Subject: Database

Category: Database Systems

Table of contents

Part I. Introduction to Databases
1. Databases and Database Users
2. Database Systems Concepts and Architecture

Part II. Conceptual Data Modeling and Database Design
3. Data Modeling Using the Entity Relationship (ER) Model
4. The Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) Model

Part III. The Relational Data Model and SQL
5. The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints
6. Basic SQL
7. More SQL. Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification
8. The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus
9. Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping

Part IV. Database Programming Techniques
10. Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques
11. Web Database Programming Using PHP

Part V. Object, Object-Relational, and XML. Concepts, Models, Languages, and Standards
12. Object and Object-Relational Databases
13. XLM. Extensible Markup Language

Part VI. Database Design Theory and Normalization
14. Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases
15. Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies

Part VII. File Structures, Hashing, Indexing, and Physical Database Design
16. Disc Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures
17. Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design

Part IIX. Query Processing and Optimization
18. Strategies for Query Processing
19. Query Optimization

Part IX. Transaction Processing, Concurrency Control, and Recovering
20. Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory
21. Concurrency Control Techniques
22. Database Recovery Techniques

Part X. Distributed Databases, NOSQL Systems, Cloud Computing, and Big Data
23. Distributed Database Concepts
24. NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems
25. Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop

Part XI. Advanced Database Models, Systems, and Applications
26. Enhanced Data Models. Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases
27. Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search
28. Data Mining Concepts
29. Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP

Part XII. Additional Database Topics. Security
30. Database Security

Appendix A. Alternative Diagrammatic Notations for ER Models
Appendix B. Parameters of Disks
Appendix C. Overview of the QBE Language
Appendix D. Overview of the Hierarchical Data Model
Appendix E. Overview of the Network Data Model

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