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Preface
PART One
Introduction
1 Overview of Databases and Transactions
1.1 What Are Databases and Transactions?
1.2 Features of Modern Database and Transaction Processing Systems
1.3 Major Players in the Implementation and Support of Database and Transaction Processing Systems
1.4 Decision Support Systems OLAP and OLTP
1.5 Exercises
2 A Closer Look
2.1 Case Study: A Student Registration System
2.2 IntToduction to Relational Databases
2.3 What Makes a Program a Transaction?
2.4 BibliographicNotes
2.5 Exercises
3 Case Study: Starting the Student Registration System
3.1 Software Engineering Methodology
3.2 Requirements Document
3.3 Requirements Analysis New Issues
3.4 Application Generators
3.5 GUIs and Objects
3.6 Events and Procedures
3.7 Accessing Databases and Executing Transactions
3.8 Specifying the Student Registration System
3.9 Specification Document
3.10 Bibliographic Notes
3.11 Exercises
PART Two
Database Management
4 The Relational Data Model
4.1 What Is a Data Model?
4.2 The Relational Model
4.3 SQL Data Definition Sublanguage
4.4 Bibliographic Notes
4.5 Exercises
5 Database Design l: The Entity-Relationship Model
5.1 Conceptrial Modeling with the E-R Approach
5.2 Entities and Entity Types
5.3 Relationships and Relationship Types
5.4 Advanced Features of the E-R Approach
5.5 A Brokerage Firm Example
5.6 Limitations of the E-R Approach
5.7 Case Study: A Design for the Student Registration System
5.8 Bibliographic Notes
5.9 Exercises
6 Query Languages l: Relational Algebra and SQL
6.1 Relational Algebra: Under the Hood of SQL
6.2 The Query Sublanguage of SQL
6.3 Modifying Relation Instances in SQL
6.4 Bibliographic Notes
6.5 Exercises
7 Query Languages II: Relational Calculus and Visual Query Languages
7.1 Tuple Relational Calculus
7.2 Understanding SQL through Tuple Relational Calculus
7.3 Domain Relational Calculus and Visual Query Languages
7.4 Visual Query Languages: QBE and PC Databases
7.5 The Relationship between Relational Algebra and the Calculi
7.6 Recursive Queries in SQL:1999
7.7 Bibliographic Notes
7.8 Exercises
8 Database Design II: Relational Normalization Theory
8.1 The Problem of Redundancy
8.2 Decompositions
8.3 Functional Dependencies
8.4 Properties of Functional Dependencies
8.5 Normal Forms
8.6 Properties of Decompositions
8.7 An Algorithm for BCNF Decomposition
8.8 Synthesis of 3NF Schemas
8.9 The Fourth Normal Form
8.10 Advanced 4NF Design
8.11 Sununary of Normal Form Decomposition
8.12 Case Study: Schema Refinement for the Student Registration System
8.13 Tuning Issues: To Decompose or Not to Decompose?
8.14 Bibliographic Notes
8.15 Exercises
9 Triggers and Active Databases
9.1 Semantic Issues in Trigger Handling
9.2 Triggers in SQL:1999
9.3 Avoiding a Chain Reaction
9.4 BibliographicNotes
9.5 Exercises
10 SQL in the Real World
10.1 Executing SQL Statements within an Application Program
10.2 Emtredded SQL
10.3 More on Integrity Constraints
10.4 DynandcSQL
10.5 JDBC and SQLJ
10.6 ODBC
10.7 Comparison
10.8 Bibliographic Notes
10.9 Exercises
11 Physical Data Organization and Indexing
11.1 Disk Organization
11.2 Heap Files
11.3 Sorted Files
11.4 Indices
11.5 Multilevel Indexing
11.6 Hash Indexing
11.7 Special--Purpose Indices
11.8 Tuning Issues: Choosing Indices for an Application
11.9 Bibliographic Notes
11.10 Exercises
12 Case Study: Completing the Student Registration System
12.1 The Design Document
12.2 TestPlan
12.3 Project Planning
12.4 Coding
12.5 Incremental Development
12.6 Design and Code for the Student Registration System
12.7 Bibliographic Notes
12.8 Exercises
1 3 The Basics of Query Processing
13.1 EXternalSorting
13.2 Computing Projection, Union, and Set Difference
13.3 Computing Selection
13.4 Computing Joins
13.5 Multi--RelationalJoins
13.6 Computing Aggregate Functions
13.7 Tuning Issues: Impact on Physical Database Design
13.8 Bibliographic Notes
13.9 Exercises
14 An Overview of Query Optimization
14.1 OVerview of Query Processing
14.2 Heuristic Optimization Based on Algebraic Equivalences
14.3 Estimating the Cost of a Query Execution Plan
14.4 Estimating the Size of the Outout
14.5 Choosing a Plan
14.6 Tuning Issues: Impact on Query Design
14.7 Bibliographic Notes
14.8 Exercises
15 An Overview of Transaction Processing
15.1 Isolation
15.2 Atomicity and Durability
15.3 Implementing Distributed Transactions
15.4 Bibliographic Notes
15.5 Exercises
PART Three
Advanced Topics in Databases
PART Four
Transaction Processing

本套教学用书的特点:
权威性——教育部高等教育司**、教育部高等学校信息科学与技术引进教材专家组遴选
系统性——覆盖计算机专业主干课程和非计算机专业计算机基础课程
先进性——**计算机专家近两年的*新著作,内容体系先进
经济性——价格与国内自编教材相当、是国内引进教材价格*低的

作者Philip M. Lewis、Arthur Bernstein、Michael Kifer均在美国纽约州立大学Stony Brook分校计算机科学系任教。