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Database Systems : An Application-Oriented Approach, Introductory Version

ISBN: 9780321228383 | 0321228383
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 3/30/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
Designed for students learning databases for the first time, Database Systems: An Application Oriented Approach, Brief Version, Second Edition presents the principles underlying the design and implementation of databases and database applications. This version of the book is ideal for a one-semester course in databases and contains additional material that allows the instructor to enrich the course in various directions depending upon their preference. The book consists of 12 core chapters plus additional chapters on transaction processing, sof... MORE
Prefacexvii
PART ONE Introduction
1(28)
Overview of Databases and Transactions
3(10)
... MORE
What Are Databases and Transactions?
3(3)
Features of Modern Database and Transaction Processing Systems
6(1)
Major Players in the Implementation and Support of Database and Transaction Processing Systems
7(2)
Decision Support Systems---OLAP and OLTP
9(4)
The Big Picture
13(16)
Case Study: A Student Registration System
13(1)
Introduction to Relational Databases
14(6)
What Makes a Program a Transaction---The ACID Properties
20(9)
Bibliographic Notes
25(1)
Exercises
25(4)
PART TWO Database Management
29(290)
The Relational Data Model
31(38)
What Is a Data Model?
31(4)
The Relational Model
35(11)
Basic Concepts
35(3)
Integrity Constraints
38(8)
SQL---Data Definition Sublanguage
46(23)
Specifying the Relation Type
46(1)
The System Catalog
46(1)
Key Constraints
47(1)
Dealing with Missing Information
48(1)
Semantic Constraints
49(4)
User-Defined Domains
53(1)
Foreign-Key Constraints
53(3)
Reactive Constraints
56(3)
Database Views
59(1)
Modifying Existing Definitions
60(2)
SQL-Schemas
62(1)
Access Control
63(2)
Bibliographic Notes
65(1)
Exercises
66(3)
Conceptual Modeling of Databases with Entry-Relationship Diagrams and the Unified Modeling Language
69(58)
Conceptual Modeling with the E-R Approach
70(1)
Entities and Entity Types
70(3)
Relationships and Relationship Types
73(5)
Advanced Features in Conceptual Data Modeling
78(8)
Entity Type Hierarchies
78(3)
Participation Constraints
81(2)
The Part-of Relationship
83(3)
From E-R Diagrams to Relational Database Schemas
86(9)
Representation of Entities
86(2)
Representation of Relationships
88(2)
Representing IsA Hierarchies in the Relational Model
90(2)
Representation of Participation Constraints
92(2)
Representation of the Part-of Relationship
94(1)
UML: A New Kid on the Block
95(11)
Representing Entities in UML
96(1)
Representing Relationships in UML
97(4)
Advanced Modeling Concepts in UML
101(4)
Translation to SQL
105(1)
A Brokerage Firm Example
106(5)
An Entity-Relationship Design
106(4)
A UML Design
110(1)
Case Study: A Database Design for the Student Registration System
111(8)
The Database Part of the Requirements Document
112(1)
The Database Design
113(6)
Limitations of Data Modeling Methodologies
119(8)
Bibliographic Notes
123(1)
Exercises
123(4)
Relational Algebra and SQL
127(66)
Relational Algebra: Under the Hood of SQL
128(19)
Basic Operators
128(9)
Derived Operators
137(10)
The Query Sublanguage of SQL
147(35)
Simple SQL Queries
148(6)
Set Operations
154(3)
Nested Queries
157(6)
Quantified Predicates
163(1)
Aggregation over Data
164(6)
Join Expressions in the FROM Clause
170(1)
A Simple Query Evaluation Algorithm
171(3)
More on Views in SQL
174(3)
Materialized Views
177(4)
The Null Value Quandary
181(1)
Modifying Relation Instances in SQL
182(11)
Inserting Data
182(2)
Deleting Data
184(1)
Updating Existing Data
185(1)
Updates on Views
185(2)
Bibliographic Notes
187(1)
Exercises
188(5)
Database Design with the Relational Normalization Theory
193(58)
The Problem of Redundancy
193(2)
Decompositions
195(3)
Functional Dependencies
198(2)
Properties of Functional Dependencies
200(7)
Normal Forms
207(4)
The Boyce-Codd Normal Form
208(2)
The Third Normal Form
210(1)
Properties of Decompositions
211(8)
Lossless and Lossy Decompositions
212(3)
Dependency-Preserving Decompositions
215(4)
An Algorithm for BCNF Decomposition
219(2)
Synthesis of 3NF Schemas
221(7)
Minimal Cover
222(2)
3NF Decomposition through Schema Synthesis
224(2)
BCNF Decomposition through 3NF Synthesis
226(2)
The Fourth Normal Form
228(5)
Advanced 4NF Design
233(7)
MVDs and Their Properties
234(1)
The Difficulty of Designing for 4NF
235(3)
A 4NF Decomposition How-To
238(2)
Summary of Normal Form Decomposition
240(1)
Case Study: Schema Refinement for the Student Registration System
241(3)
Tuning Issues: To Decompose or Not to Decompose?
244(7)
Bibliographic Notes
245(1)
Exercises
246(5)
Triggers and Active Databases
251(16)
What Is a Trigger?
251(1)
Semantic Issues in Trigger Handling
252(4)
Triggers in SQL: 1999
256(8)
Avoiding a Chain Reaction
264(3)
Bibliographic Notes
265(1)
Exercises
265(2)
Using SQL in an Application
267(52)
What Are the Issues Involved?
267(1)
Embedded SQL
268(17)
Status Processing
271(2)
Sessions, Connections, and Transactions
273(1)
Executing Transactions
274(2)
Cursors
276(6)
Stored Procedures on the Server
282(3)
More on Integrity Constraints
285(1)
Dynamic SQL
286(8)
Statement Preparation in Dynamic SQL
287(3)
Prepared Statements and the Descriptor Area
290(3)
Cursors
293(1)
Stored Procedures on the Server
293(1)
JDBC and SQLJ
294(13)
JDBC Basics
294(3)
Prepared Statements
297(1)
Result Sets and Cursors
297(3)
Obtaining Information about a Result Set
300(1)
Status Processing
300(1)
Executing Transactions
301(1)
Stored Procedures on the Server
302(1)
An Example
303(1)
SQLJ: Statement-Level Interface to Java
303(4)
ODBC
307(8)
Prepared Statements
309(1)
Cursors
309(3)
Status Processing
312(1)
Executing Transactions
312(1)
Stored Procedures on the Server
313(1)
An Example
313(2)
Comparison
315(4)
Bibliographic Notes
316(1)
Exercises
316(3)
PART THREE Optimizing DBMS Performance and Transaction Processing
319(168)
Physical Data Organization and Indexing
321(58)
Disk Organization
322(7)
Raid Systems
326(3)
Heap Files
329(4)
Sorted Files
333(4)
Indices
337(10)
Clustered versus Unclustered Indices
340(2)
Sparse versus Dense Indices
342(2)
Search Keys Containing Multiple Attributes
344(3)
Multilevel Indexing
347(13)
Index-Sequential Access
350(3)
B+ Trees
353(7)
Hash Indexing
360(11)
Static Hashing
360(3)
Dynamic Hashing Algorithms
363(8)
Special-Purpose Indices
371(2)
Bitmap Indices
371(1)
Join Indices
372(1)
Tuning Issues: Choosing Indices for an Application
373(6)
Bibliographic Notes
374(1)
Exercises
375(4)
The Basics of Query Processing
379(26)
Overview of Query Processing
379(1)
External Sorting
380(4)
Computing Projection, Union, and Set Difference
384(2)
Computing Selection
386(6)
Selections with Simple Conditions
387(2)
Access Paths
389(2)
Selections with Complex Conditions
391(1)
Computing Joins
392(7)
Computing Joins Using Simple Nested Loops
393(3)
Sort-Merge Join
396(2)
Hash Join
398(1)
Multirelational Joins
399(2)
Computing Aggregate Functions
401(4)
Bibliographic Notes
401(1)
Exercises
401(4)
An Overview of Query Optimization
405(24)
Query Processing Architecture
405(2)
Heuristic Optimization Based on Algebraic Equivalences
407(3)
Estimating the Cost of a Query Execution Plan
410(8)
Estimating the Size of the Output
418(2)
Choosing a Plan
420(9)
Bibliographic Notes
425(1)
Exercises
425(4)
Database Tuning
429(26)
Disk Caches
430(3)
Tuning the Cache
431(2)
Tuning the Schema
433(10)
Indices
433(7)
Denormalization
440(1)
Repeating Groups
441(1)
Partitioning
442(1)
Tuning the Data Manipulation Language
443(3)
Tools
446(1)
Managing Physical Resources
447(1)
Influencing the Optimizer
448(7)
Bibliographic Notes
451(1)
Exercises
451(4)
An Overview of Transaction Processing
455(32)
Isolation
455(17)
Serializability
456(2)
Two-Phase Locking
458(4)
Deadlock
462(1)
Locking in Relational Databases
463(2)
Isolation Levels
465(3)
Lock Granularity and Intention Locks
468(3)
Summary
471(1)
Atomicity and Durability
472(5)
The Write-Ahead Log
472(4)
Recovery from Mass Storage Failure
476(1)
Implementing Distributed Transactions
477(10)
Atomicity and Durability---The Two-Phase Commit Protocol
478(2)
Global Serializability and Deadlock
480(2)
Replication
482(2)
Summary
484(1)
Bibliographic Notes
484(1)
Exercises
485(2)
PART FOUR Software Engineering Issues and Documentation
487(48)
Requirements and Specifications
489(20)
Software Engineering Methodology
489(4)
UML Use Cases
490(3)
The Requirements Document for the Student Registration System
493(7)
Requirements Analysis---New Issues
500(2)
Specifying the Student Registration System
502(2)
UML Sequence Diagrams
503(1)
The Specification Document for the Student Registration System: Section III
504(2)
The Next Step in the Software Engineering Process
506(3)
Bibliographic Notes
506(1)
Exercises
507(2)
Design, Coding, and Testing
509(26)
The Design Process
509(6)
Database Design
510(1)
Describing the Behavior of Objects with UML State Diagrams
510(2)
Structure of the Design Document
512(2)
Design Review
514(1)
Test Plan
515(3)
Project Planning
518(3)
Coding
521(2)
Incremental Development
523(1)
The Project Management Plan
524(1)
Design and Code for the Student Registration System
525(10)
Completing the Database Design: Integrity Constraints
526(2)
Design of the Registration Transaction
528(2)
Partial Code for the Registration Transaction
530(3)
Bibliographic Notes
533(1)
Exercises
533(2)
PART FIVE Advanced Topics in Databases
535(104)
Introduction to Object Databases
537(30)
Shortcomings of the Relational Data Model
537(6)
The Conceptual Object Data Model
543(7)
Objects and Values
544(1)
Classes
545(1)
Types
546(3)
Object-Relational Databases
549(1)
Objects in SQL: 1999 and SQL:2003
550(17)
Row Types
551(1)
User-Defined Types
552(1)
Objects
553(1)
Querying User-Defined Types
554(1)
Updating User-Defined Types
555(3)
Reference Types
558(2)
Inheritance
560(1)
Collection Types
561(2)
Bibliographic Notes
563(1)
Exercises
564(3)
Introduction to XML and Web Data
567(72)
Semistructured Data
567(3)
Overview of XML
570(16)
XML Elements and Database Objects
573(2)
XML Attributes
575(2)
Namespaces
577(5)
Document Type Definitions
582(3)
Inadequacy of DTDs as a Data Definition Language
585(1)
XML Schema
586(29)
XML Schema and Namespaces
587(3)
Simple Types
590(5)
Complex Types
595(8)
Putting It Together
603(3)
Shortcuts: Anonymous Types and Element References
606(2)
Integrity Constraints
608(7)
XML Query Languages
615(24)
XPath: A Lightweight XML Query Language
616(7)
SQL/XML
623(10)
Bibliographic Notes
633(1)
Exercises
634(5)
Bibliography639(10)
Index649

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