Database System Concepts (4th Edition) (4th Edition)

Author: Abraham Silberschatz
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book is one of the classic textbooks in the field of database systems and has been adopted as a required or recommended textbook for database systems courses by many prestigious universities such as Stanford University, the University of Texas, Yale University, Cornell University, the University of Illinois, and the Indian Institutes of Technology. Its Chinese edition of the third edition has also been used by numerous universities in China as a textbook or main reference for undergraduate and graduate database courses, achieving excellent results. The book primarily introduces the fundamental concepts of database systems, including database design, database languages, and system implementation. The fourth edition expands the content on the ER model, SQL, data warehouses, OLAP, and data mining, adds new chapters on XML, database management, and application development, and updates and expands the section on information retrieval. This book can serve as a textbook for database courses for third- and fourth-year undergraduates and first-year graduate students, as well as a reference for professionals in the database field. It covers a wide range of topics, including data models, systems for basic objects and XML, database storage and retrieval, transaction processing, and database system architecture. All concepts are described in an intuitive manner, with clear diagrams and examples replacing formal proofs. The book uses a bank database example to vividly explain important concepts, enhancing its readability.