Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management (2nd Edition)

Author: Chen Lijun
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book primarily explains the fundamental principles of database design, implementation, and application, with a focus on introducing how to use databases to create applications rather than how to create database management systems themselves. It reflects the latest advancements in database research, including the new SQL standard, UML, XML, object-oriented databases, and database performance tuning. The main contents of this book include the relational data model, E-R diagrams and UML modeling, relational algebra and SQL, database design, SQL DBMS, query processing and optimization, database tuning, transaction processing, and software engineering issues related to the implementation of transaction processing. This book is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and related fields taking database courses.