Most modern-day organizations have a need to record data relevant to their everyday activities and many choose to organise and store some of this information in an electronic database. Database Systems provides an essential introduction to modern database technology and the development of database systems. This new edition has been fully updated to include new developments in the field, and features new chapters on: e-business, database development process, requirements for databases, and distributed processing. In addition, a wealth of new examples and exercises have been added to each chapter to make the book more practically useful to students, and full lecturer support will be available online.
Preface to the Third Edition
PART I: FUNDAMENTALS Database Systems as Abstract Machines
Data and Information
Database, DBMS and Data Model
Databases Systems, ICT Systems and Information Systems
Database Systems and Electronic Business
Data Management Layer
PART II: DATA MODELS Relational Data Model
Object-Oriented Data Model
Deductive Data Model
Post-Relational Data Model
PART III: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: (DBMS) INTERFACE SQL Data Definition
SQL Data Integrity
SQL Data Manipulation
PART IV: DATABASE DEVELOPMENT Database Development Process
Requirements Elicitation
Entity-Relationship Diagramming
Object Modelling
Normalisation
Physical Database Design
Database Implementation
PART V: PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Strategic Data Planning
Data Administration
Database Administration
PART VI: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (DBMS) TOOLKIT DBMS Toolkit End-User Tools
DBMS Toolkit Application Development Tools
DBMS Toolkit Database Administration Tools
PART VII: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS KERNEL Data Organisation
Access Mechanisms
Transaction Management
Other Kernel Functions
PART VIII: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS STANDARDS AND COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS
Post-Relational DBMS SQL3
Object-Oriented DBMS ODMG Object Model
Microsoft Access
Oracle
O2 DBMS
PART IX: TRENDS IN DATABASE TECHNOLOGY Distributed Processing
Distributed Data
Parallel Databases
Complex Data
PART X: APPLICATIONS OF DATABASE SYSTEMS Data Warehousing
On-Line Analytical Processing
Data Mining
Database Systems and the Web
Bibliography
Glossary and Index.
