Database Systems Engineering

Nick Ryan & Dan Smith

International Thomson Computer Press, 1995. ISBN 1-85032-115-9

Database Systems Engineering is intended for computing and information systems students, particularly those following an advanced course. Its thorough coverage of physical design and performance issues, and of the new generation of extended-relational and object-oriented systems ensures that it will also be of interest to professional database designers and programmers.

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• Solutions to selected exercises.
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Contents

• Preface
• Part I: Introduction
  • Preliminaries
  • Storage systems
• Part II: Database design
  • Data modelling
  • Functional modelling
  • Behaviour modelling
  • Physical design
  • Performance estimation
• Part III:Database system organisation
  • File structures and access methods
  • Rules, triggers and stored procedures
  • Transactions and concurrency control
  • Reliability
  • Query processing
• Part IV: Database models and architectures
  • The relational model
  • SQL
  • Extended relational database systems
  • Object-oriented database systems
  • Parallel and distributed data management
• Bibliography
• Index

Last updated: 22nd May 1997