TY - BOOK AU - Ramakrishnan,Raghu AU - Gehrke,Johannes TI - Database management systems. SN - 9780071231510 AV - QA76.9.D3.R16 U1 - 005.74 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Database management N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 1005-1044) and indexes; Contents: Foundations: Overview of database systems -- Introduction to database design -- The relational model -- Relational algebra and calculus -- SQL: Queries, constraints, triggers -- Application development: Database application development -- Internet applications -- Storage and indexing: Overview of storage and indexing -- Storing data: disks and files -- Tree-structured indexing -- Hash-based indexing -- Query evaluation: Overview of query evaluation -- External sorting -- Evaluating relational operators -- A typical relational query optimizer -- Transaction management: Overview of transaction management -- Concurrency control -- Crash recovery -- Database design and tuning: Schema refinement and normal forms -- Physical database design and tuning -- Security and authorization -- Additional topics: Parallel and distributed databases -- Object-database systems -- Deductive databases -- Data warehousing and decision support -- Data mining -- Information retrieval and XML data -- Spatial data management -- Further reading -- The minibase software -- UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh024/2002075205.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/mh023/2002075205.html ER -