The purpose of this manual is to give guidance on how to use the eighth edition of the book An Introduction to Database Systems──referred to throughout the manual as simply "the book," or "this book," or "the present book," or just "the eighth edition"──as a basis for teaching a database course. The book is suitable for a primary (one- or two-semester) course at the junior or senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level; it also contains some more forward-looking and research-oriented material that would be relevant to a more advanced course
