Database Management Sustems

Abstract

The book can be used with the accompanying software and programming as-signments in two distinct kinds of introductory courses: 1. Applications Emphasis: A course that covers the principles of database systems, and emphasizes how they are used in developing data-intensive ap- plications. Two new chapters on application development (one on database- backed applications, and one on Java and Internet application architectures) have been added to the third edition, and the entire book has been extensively revised and reorganized to support such a course. A running case-study and extensive online materials (e.g., code for SQL queries and Java applications, online databases and solutions) make it easy to teach a hands-on application-centric course. 2. Systems Emphasis: A course that has a strong systems emphasis and assumes that students have good programming skills in C and C++. In this case the accompanying Minibase software can be llsed as the basis for projects in which students are asked to implement various parts of relational DBMS. Several central modules in the project software (e.g.,heap files, buffer manager, B+ trees, hash indexes, various join methods)