Table of Contents

( All chapters begin with an Introduction end with a Summary, Exercises, and Reference and Bibliography)

• I. PRELIMINARIES.
• 1. An Overview of Database Management.
• 2. Database System Architecture.
• 3. An Introduction to Relational Databases.
• 4. An Introduction to SQL.
• II. THE RELATIONAL MODEL.
• 5. Types.
• 6. Relations.
• 7. Relational Algebra.
• 8. Relational Calculus.
• 9. Integrity.
• 10. Views.
• III. DATABASE DESIGN.
• 11. Functional Dependencies.
• 12. Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF.
• 13. Further Normalization II: Higher Normal Forms.
• 14. Semantic Modeling.
• IV. TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT.
• 15. Recovery.
• 16. Concurrency.
• V. FURTHER TOPICS.
• 17. Security.
• 18. Optimization.
• 19. Missing Information.
• 20. Type Inheritance.
• 21. Distributed Databases.
• 22. Decision Support.
• 23. Temporal Databases.
• 24. Logic-Based Databases.
• VI. OBJECTS, RELATIONS, AND XML.
• 25. Object Databases.
• 26. Object / Relational Databases.
• 27. The World Wide Web and XML.
• APPENDIXES.
• Appendix A: The TransRelational™ Model.
• Appendix B: SQL Expressions, Table Expressions, and Boolean Expressions.
• Appendix C: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbol.
• Appendix D: Online storage structures and access methods, database access: an overview, page sets and files, indexing, hashing, pointer chains, and compression techniques.
• Index.