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Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems.
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 provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor. It focuses 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.
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Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, and Jennifer Widom, well-known computer scientists at Stanford University, have written an introduction to database systems with a comprehensive approach. 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 provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor. It focuses on management, covering the principal techniques in these areas with broader coverage of query optimization than most other texts. Advanced topics include multidimensional and bitmap indexes, distributed transactions, and information integration techniques. This comprehensive book is valuable either as an academic textbook or as a professional reference book.
NOTEWORTHY FEATURES- Offers a readable presentation with engaging, real-world examples. Includes aspects of SQL programming not found in some other texts: SQL/PSM (persistent stored modules), JDBC (Java interface), and SQL/CLI (ODBC, or open database connectivity).
- Introduces both object-oriented design, through the ODMG standard ODL, and object-relational design from the SQL-99 standard.
- Provides extensive coverage of query processing and query optimization, supported by an extended relational algebra that is designed to match the real features of SQL. Covers information integration, including warehousing, mediators, OLAP, data cubes, and data-mining techniques.
- Explains many important, specialized topics, such as error-correction in RAID disks, bitmap indexes, use of data statistics, and pointer swizzling.
- Supported by additional teaching materials on the book's home page at http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html.
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best book i've had so far
Systems", which concentrated heavily on relational calculus.
Prof. Ullman is a polymath who has published on topics ranging
from database systems to compiler theory and design. I've
found that his work is excellent, but not exactly light
reading. In many cases the books Prof. Ullman has co-authored
lean heavily toward formalism (e.g., lots of equations.
See for example Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman's "The Design and
Analysis of Computer Algorithms").
I was pleasantly surprised to find that "Database Systems: the
complete book" is extremely readable and very complete
(living up to its title). The first half of the book covers
database systems at the high level, discussing relational
and object models. Even the chapter on relational algebra is
more readable that other work I've waded through. Every time
a concept is introduced the authors provide an example.
The second half of the book covers database implementation
and archiectural issues (e.g., B-trees and other data
structures for fast database implementation).
The sub-title ("The Complete Book") is not an exageration.
It is a great pleasure to find a book that covers database
systems from the user level to low level disk I/O. The authors
even provide some interesting observations on commercial
database trends. In the excellent chapter on the Object
Definition Language (ODL) and object database systems they
note that the early predictions for object database systems
proved overly optimistic since these systems did not provide
users enough of an advantage over relational systems to
displace these systems in the market.
The authors are professors at Stanford and this book is
a college textbook. The complete coverage of database
systems and the readable nature of this book makes it
an excellent reference for professionals like me who
took database systems long ago and need a complete
current reference.
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.
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.
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