Fundamentals of database systems

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1067-1095) and index.

1. Databases and database users -- 2. Database system concepts and architecture -- 3. Data modeling using the entity-relationship (ER) model -- 4. The enhanced entity-relationship (EER) model -- 5. The relational data model and relational database constraints -- 6. The relational algebra and relational calculus -- 7. Relational database design by ER- and EER-to-relational mapping -- 8. SQL-99 : schema definition, constraints, queries, and views -- 9. Introduction to SQL programming techniques -- 10. Functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases -- 11. Relational database design algorithms and further dependencies -- 12. Practical database design methodology and use of UML diagrams -- 13. Disk storage, basic file structures, and hashing -- 14. Indexing structures for files -- 15. Algorithms for query processing and optimization -- 16. Physical database design and tuning -- 17. Introduction to transaction processing concepts and theory -- 18. Concurrency control techniques -- 19. Database recovery techniques -- 20. Concepts for object databases -- 21. Object database standards, languages, and design -- 22. Object-relational and extended-relational systems -- 23. Database security -- 24. Enhanced data models for advanced applications -- 25. Distributed databases and client-server architectures -- 26. Web database programming using PHP -- 27. XML : extensible markup language -- 28. Data mining concepts -- 29. Overview of data warehousing and OLAP -- 30. Emerging database technologies and applications -- App. A. Alternative diagrammatic notations for ER models -- App. B. Parameters of disks -- App. C. Overview of the QBE language.