About the Book

Prepare yourself to face the real world of database application and internals development. This fully revised fourth edition presents the fundamental concepts of database management, including database design, languagos, and system implementation. All concepts are presented via intuitive descriptions, with clear, well-structured figures and examples taking the place of formal proofs. A running example of a bank enterprise brings key concepts to life.

Look to the fourth edition for:

Extended coverage of ER model, including UML notation.

Extended SQL coverage, including SQL: 1999, ODBC, and JDBC.

QBE section covering Microsoft Access QBE implementation.

Improved, easier to understand coverage of normalization.

Updated coverage of object-oriented and object-relational models.

* New chapter on XML.

Additional materials on query processing, including materialized views.

New chapter on database administration.

New chapter on application development issues, including web access to databases.

* Extended coverage of data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining.

* Updated and extended coverage of information retrieval.

* New appendices on internal design of commercial database systems.

About the Authors

Abraham Silberschatz (Ph.D. the State University of New York at Stony Brook) is Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. His research interests include operating systems, database systems, and distributed systems. Dr. Silberschatz has served as a member of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Panel for President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, and as an advi- sor for the National Science Foundation. He received the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award for the article "Capability Manager." He is an ACM and an IEEE Fellow.

Henry F. Korth (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Director of Database Principles Research in Bell Laboratories Information Sciences Research Center. He also serves as a Director for Technology Assessment for Lucent Technologies Software Products Group. His research interests include high-performance database systems, real-time database systems, and XML databases.

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Dr. Korth is a Fellow of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE He has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers, and has served on the editorial boards of several computing journals. He cur- rently serves on the editorial boards of The VLDB Journal and The International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems,

5. Sudarshan (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison) is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He pre- viously was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies). Dr. Sudarshan's research interests include query processing and optimization, failure recov ery, and main memory databases.

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