Database Systems: The Complete Book

By Jennifer Widom, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman

Book Overview

This introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems. KEY TOPICS The first half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer. It covers the latest database standards SQL:1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts. The second half of the book covers databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor, focusing on storage structures, query processing, and transaction management. The book covers the main techniques in these areas with broader coverage of query optimization than most other texts, along with advanced topics including multidimensional and bitmap indexes, distributed transactions, and information integration techniques. MARKET: Ideal for professionals and students interested in database systems. A basic understanding of algebraic expressions and laws, logic, basic data structure, OOP concepts, and programming environments is implied.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131873253
• ISBN13: 9780131873254
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 1248 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.0" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

I love this book!

I bought this book because it was assigned as the primary textbook for a database course. But I have also consulted this book in courses on data structures and algorithms, computer organization, operating systems, programming languages, and even knowledge-based systems (the section on data mining). The book is not always easy to read, because the material is not easy. The authors write very clearly, and give many good examples to illustrate their points. I like the clean layout of the book. I appreciate that it does not have the gratuitous, gimmicky, irritating graphics and sidebars that some authors of computer science textbooks think they have to throw in to keep us amused.

Understanding Databases

This book helps you understand how databases works. The second half of the book explains how data is stored (100 pages), how indexes are built (100 pages), query processing (150 pages), transaction management (100 pages), and durability and recovery (50 pages). This is one of the best book, if not the best, on database implementation. The first half of the book is about databases from the user's perspective (e.g. SQLs). Although I was mainly interested in the second half, I found the first half to be an excellent reference on SQL.

Very nice book if used as a textbook

Very nice writen for new learners while covers enough aspects to step further. Long because it is from the merging of another 2 books. Recommended as a handbook for new commers to database area.

Almost complete. Very good.

Very interesting, well written reading. The main problem is completeness: although some new topics are covered, other, more traditional, but fundamental, are not. One simple example: triggers.

Very Satisfied

Clear. Concise. Organized. Complete. Instructive