Database Management Systems (Paperback)

Database Management Systems Book Description

About the Book :

This comprehensive and student-friendly textbook presents the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using and implementing database systems and applications. Ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Computer Science at various levels (BCA, B.Sc., BE, B.Tech., M.Sc., MCA, ME, M.Tech.) and reference for professionals.

About the Author :

ALEXIS LEON is a full time writer and software consultant. He has written over 22 books on topics including CICS, DB2, Oracle, Power Builder, Developer 2000, Year 2000 Solutions and about the Internet. He holds a masters degree in Industrial Engineering and his areas of specialization include Software Engineering, DBMS, Workflow Automation and Productivity.MATHEWS LEON is Executive Director, L&L Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd., a company specializing in Web Design & Development, Client/Server development, Groupware and Workflow Automation. He holds a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and his areas of specialization are Web Design and Development, User Interface Design, Client/Server Applications & Groupware.You can reach them through e-mail at alexis@lnl.net or mathews@lnl.net or through web site at http://www.lnl.net.

Contents :

PART I: INTRODUCTION, 1.Data, Information and Information Processing, 2.Secondary (Auxiliary) Storage Devices, 3.Files, File Organization and File Structures, 4.Indexing and Hashing, 5.Introduction to Database Management Systems (DBMS), 6.Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Database Development Life Cycle (DDLC), 7.Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), PART II: DATABASE ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND DATA MODELLING, 8.Database Architecture and Data Modeling, 09.Entity-Relationship (E-R) Modeling, 10.Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) Model, 11.Data Normalization, PART III: QUERY LANGUAGES, 12.Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus, 13.Tables Used in this Book, 14.Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL), 15.Tables, Views and Indexes, 16.Nulls, 17.Queries and Subqueries, 18.Aggregate Functions, 19.Insert, Update and Delete Operations, 20.Cursors, 21.Joins and Unions, 22.Programming with SQL, 23.Query-by-Example (QBE), 24.QUEL, 25.Triggers, 26.Query Processing and Optimization, PART IV: DATABASE IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES, 27.Database Security, 28.Data Integrity, 29.Transaction Management and Concurrency Control, 30.Backup and Recovery, PART V: DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES, 31.Evolution of Computing Models, 32.Client/Server Technology and Client/Server Databases, 33.Distributed Databases, 34.Multidimensional Data and Databases, 35.Parallel Processing and Parallel Databases, 36.Spatial and Multimedia Databases, 37.Mobile Computing and Mobile Databases, 38.Web Databases, PART VI: DATABASE APPLICATIONS, 39.Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), 40.Data Warehouses and Data Marts, 41.Data Mining, 42.On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), 43.On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), 44.Customer Relationship Management (CRM), 45.Supply Chain Management (SCM), 46.Geographic Information System (GIS), PART VII: APPENDICES, A.Glossary of Database Terms, B.DBMS Evaluation and Selection, C.Overview of Microsoft Access, D.Introduction to PL/SQL

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