Database Management Systems (IRWIN COMPUTER SCIENCE) Hardcover – Illustrated, 16 Sept. 2002

This book really covers all the fundamentals topics of database management systems. It first explains how databases are used by introducing the entity-relational model, relational algebra and SQL programming and then describes how databases are constructed. Topics like memory management, indexing for DBMS, query processing and optimization, transactions, distributed databases are covered in depth.Moreover, this books comes with a huge library of very interesting exercises.A reference for anyone taking a database course.

A nice book for DB learner. It covers almost all of the DB knowledge.I bought it in the last term of my postgraduate study sesstion. I study it myself twice.

Fingerprints on the covers and inside of the book. A little dirty...