Database System Concepts (Fifth Edition)

Author: Yang Dongqing
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book is the newly revised edition of the classic textbook Database System Concepts, providing a comprehensive introduction to various aspects of database systems and thoroughly explaining the fundamental concepts of database management. The book is rich in content, not only discussing topics such as database query languages, schema design, data warehouses, database application development, object-oriented databases, and XML, data storage and querying, transaction management, data mining and information retrieval, and database system architecture, but also extensively covering advanced application topics such as performance evaluation standards, performance tuning, standardization, spatial and geographic data, and transaction processing monitoring. This book can serve as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate or lower-level graduate courses in databases, as well as a reference for technical professionals in the database field. It is one of the classic textbooks in the field of database systems. Many renowned universities worldwide, including Stanford University, Yale University, the University of Texas, Cornell University, the University of Illinois, and the Indian Institutes of Technology, use this book as a textbook. In China, many universities have adopted previous Chinese editions of this book as teaching materials and primary reference books for undergraduate and graduate database courses, achieving good results.
Adjustments and New Content in This Edition:
The teaching order of the 4th edition has been adjusted. SQL and its advanced features are introduced first to make it easier for students to grasp the concepts of database design. A dedicated discussion on database design has been added. The content related to object-oriented databases and XML has been completely rewritten and updated. The content on data mining and information retrieval has been reorganized, and an example study of the PostgreSQL database system has been added.