Database design and implementation /
Edward Sciore.
- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2009.
- xxi, 762 p. : ill.: 24 cm.
Includes index
Why a database system? -- Data definition -- Data design -- Data manipulation -- Integrity and security -- Improving query efficiency -- Clients and servers -- Using JDBC -- Persistent java objects -- Data exchange -- Webserver-based database clients -- Disk and file management -- Memory management -- Transaction management -- Record management -- Metadata management -- Query processing -- Parsing -- Planning -- Database server -- Indexing -- Materialization and sorting -- Effective buffer utilization -- Query optimization.
This book takes software developers through database systems while covering the traditional database system concepts from a systems perspective. The chapters are organized according to the components of a database, starting from low-level disk access and ending at the query planner.