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Database System Concepts by Silberschatz is now in its 6th edition and is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible. Silberschatz is designed for a first course in databases at the junior/senior undergraduate level or the first year graduate level. It also contains additional material that can be used as supplements or as introductory material for an advanced course. Because the authors present concepts as intuitive descriptions, a familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level programming language are the only prerequisites. Important theoretical results are covered, but formal proofs are omitted. In place of proofs, figures and examples are used to suggest why a result is true.
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Abraham Silberschatz (Ph.D. the State University of New York at Stony Brook) is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include operating systems, database systems, real-time systems, storage systems, network management, and distributed systems. Prof. Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award. He is an author of the textbook Operating System Concepts.
Henry F. Korth (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Weiseman Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh, he was Director of Database Principles Research at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. His research interests include XML data management, web-based data, main-memory database systems, real-time systems, parallel systems and other topics. Before joining Bell Laboratories, Prof. Korth was a Vice President of Panasonic Technologies and Director of the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Prof. Korth is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
S. Sudarshan (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Database Research Group at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prof. Sudarshan is an author of over 60 papers in different areas of database systems, and holds 13 patents. His current research interests include query processing and optimization, authorization, and keyword querying of databases. In addition to being the architect of several software systems dealing with database internals, he has also been responsible for building and maintaining a variety of database applications used in IIT Bombay.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Contrary to what is stated in the other review of this book I find it very useful. I suppose that guy is not interested in much more than how to write simple SQL in which case I can agree that there might be more extensive books...
However, if you are like me and want to know a little more than that this is a really good book on database system concepts. It explains how things work and why they work. The explanations of these concepts are supported by simple descrete mathematics notation. I really liked this book and I recommed this book to anyone who wants to know how databases work.
However, if you are like me and want to know a little more than that this is a really good book on database system concepts. It explains how things work and why they work. The explanations of these concepts are supported by simple descrete mathematics notation. I really liked this book and I recommed this book to anyone who wants to know how databases work.
Format:Hardcover
De facto text book for Databases
Who need this book?
DBMS developer or admins, who want to brush up concepts.
Students who are learning Computer science at university, this book is must have for them.
Book is divided in following main sections
1. Introduction.
This section just gives brief introduction about DBMS (database management system).
2. Relational databases.
This section is divided in five difference chapters, which are
* Introduction to the Relational Model
* Introduction to SQL
* Intermediate SQL
* Advanced SQL
* Formal Relational Query Languages
3. Database design.
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Database Design and the E-R Model
* Relational Database Design
* Application Design and Development
4. Data storage and querying.
This section is divided in four difference chapters, which are
* Storage and File Structure
* Indexing and Hashing
* Query Processing
* Query Optimization
5. Transaction management
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Transactions
* Concurrency Control
* Recovery System
6. System architecture.
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Database-System Architectures
* Parallel Databases
* Distributed Databases
7. Data warehousing, data mining and data retrieval.
This section is divided in two difference chapters, which are
* Data Warehousing and Mining
* Information Retrieval
8. Specialty databases.
This section is divided in two difference chapters, which are
* Object-Based Databases
* XML
9. Advance topics.
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Advanced Application Development
* Spatial and Temporal Data and Mobility
* Advanced Transaction Processing
10. Case studies.
This section is divided in four difference chapters, which are
* PostgreSQL
* Oracle
* IBM DB2 Universal Database
* Microsoft SQL Server
11. Appendices
Points about book are as follow
Book is well written and very concise.
Explains each and every DBMS concepts in very details.
Each chapter has exercises at end.
The exercises are divided into two sets: practice exercises and exercises. The solutions for the practice exercises are publicly available at book's website.
SQL syntaxes used in this book are standard SQL language and do not follow any specific DBMS such as oracle or Microsoft SQL Server.
There are lots of diagrams, tables and real life examples in book for better explanation.
Case studies are good way to explain some real life problems.
Case studies section is missing MySQL database system, which is surprised for me.
Who need this book?
DBMS developer or admins, who want to brush up concepts.
Students who are learning Computer science at university, this book is must have for them.
Book is divided in following main sections
1. Introduction.
This section just gives brief introduction about DBMS (database management system).
2. Relational databases.
This section is divided in five difference chapters, which are
* Introduction to the Relational Model
* Introduction to SQL
* Intermediate SQL
* Advanced SQL
* Formal Relational Query Languages
3. Database design.
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Database Design and the E-R Model
* Relational Database Design
* Application Design and Development
4. Data storage and querying.
This section is divided in four difference chapters, which are
* Storage and File Structure
* Indexing and Hashing
* Query Processing
* Query Optimization
5. Transaction management
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Transactions
* Concurrency Control
* Recovery System
6. System architecture.
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Database-System Architectures
* Parallel Databases
* Distributed Databases
7. Data warehousing, data mining and data retrieval.
This section is divided in two difference chapters, which are
* Data Warehousing and Mining
* Information Retrieval
8. Specialty databases.
This section is divided in two difference chapters, which are
* Object-Based Databases
* XML
9. Advance topics.
This section is divided in three difference chapters, which are
* Advanced Application Development
* Spatial and Temporal Data and Mobility
* Advanced Transaction Processing
10. Case studies.
This section is divided in four difference chapters, which are
* PostgreSQL
* Oracle
* IBM DB2 Universal Database
* Microsoft SQL Server
11. Appendices
Points about book are as follow
Book is well written and very concise.
Explains each and every DBMS concepts in very details.
Each chapter has exercises at end.
The exercises are divided into two sets: practice exercises and exercises. The solutions for the practice exercises are publicly available at book's website.
SQL syntaxes used in this book are standard SQL language and do not follow any specific DBMS such as oracle or Microsoft SQL Server.
There are lots of diagrams, tables and real life examples in book for better explanation.
Case studies are good way to explain some real life problems.
Case studies section is missing MySQL database system, which is surprised for me.
Format:Paperback
This book was listed as primary bibliography for my "Database Concepts" class in college and I'll say I'm very impressed so far. It covers all the topics with a decent amount of detail, plus some very well thought-of practice exercises at the end of the chapters (plus the solved ones available at the book's website).
We've been building a database for a fictitious cultural event-planning organization as a class project, and the book has been very helpful. I myself was having some trouble understanding Relational Algebra which this book managed to explain in a very clear and accessible fashion.
It covers a lot of ground, with enough detail for you to understand and put it into practice. The conceptual aspects (ie. ER models and Relational Algebra) are by far the best, as you'll easily understand all of it without nothing but the text and the practice exercises. The more "technical" stuff like PHP, SQL, XML, etc, you'll probably need to a little "googling" on the side, plus a lot of exercise on your own to fully master them, but the book does give you a very good overview into all of them, and if you already have experience in any, you'll do just great.
Overall, its a very good book that demands very little previous knowledge to fully grasp, and explains what it's supposed to with the right amount of detail and depth.
We've been building a database for a fictitious cultural event-planning organization as a class project, and the book has been very helpful. I myself was having some trouble understanding Relational Algebra which this book managed to explain in a very clear and accessible fashion.
It covers a lot of ground, with enough detail for you to understand and put it into practice. The conceptual aspects (ie. ER models and Relational Algebra) are by far the best, as you'll easily understand all of it without nothing but the text and the practice exercises. The more "technical" stuff like PHP, SQL, XML, etc, you'll probably need to a little "googling" on the side, plus a lot of exercise on your own to fully master them, but the book does give you a very good overview into all of them, and if you already have experience in any, you'll do just great.
Overall, its a very good book that demands very little previous knowledge to fully grasp, and explains what it's supposed to with the right amount of detail and depth.
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Silberschatz is Superb.
From some of the final-year, honours-level content of my degree, to presenting database concepts to GCSE and A-Level students, I have found the information, presentation and... Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2005 by Tony Seaton
Possibly the least accessible book ever
In spite of already having read several books on computer science generally, I was nonplussed by how the authors make such heavy weather of often relatively simple concepts. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2002 by Cole Davis
An excellent source of reference for databases
If you ned information on the theory of databases, this is an essential reference. Covering topics, such as transactions, recovery procedures and indexing, these of which I have... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2001 by grj@argonet.co.uk
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