Database Systems: The Complete Book- P1: Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. 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 | Database Systems The Complete Book Hector Garcia-Molina Jeffrey D. Ullman Jennifer Widom Department of Computer Science Stanford University An Alan R. Apt Book Prentice Hall Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River New Jersey 07458 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on to remove this wateri About the Authors Table of Contents JEFFREY D. ULLMAN is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of 16 books including Elements of ML Programming Prentice Hall 1998 . His research interests include data mining information integration and electronic education. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award the SIGMOD Contributions Award and the Knuth Prize. JENNIFER WIDOM is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests include query processing on data streams data caching and replication semistructured data and XML and data warehousing. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and has served on numerous program committees advisory boards and editorial boards. HECTOR GARCIA-MOLINA is the L. Bosack and S. Lerner Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests include digital libraries information integration and database application on the Internet. He was a recipient of the SIGMOD Innovations Award and is a member of PITAC President s Information-Technology Advisory Council . 1 The Worlds of Database Systems 1 The Evolution of Database Systems . 2 Early Database Management Systems. 2 Relational Database Systems. 4 Smaller and Smaller Systems. 5 Bigger and Bigger Systems. 6 Client-Server and Multi-Tier Architectures . 7 Multimedia Data. 8 Information Integration. 8 Overview of a Database Management .
