Structure of the Book
The book overall consists of a preface plus 27 chapters (divided
into six parts), together with four appendixes, as follows:
Part I : Preliminaries
1. An Overview of Database Management
2. Database System Architecture
3. An Introduction to Relational Database
4. An Introduction to SQL
Part II : The Relational Model
5. Types
6. Relations
7. Relational Algebra
8. Relational Calculus
9. Integrity
10. Views
Part III : Database Design
11. Functional Dependencies
12. Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF
13. Further Normalization II: Higher Normal Forms
14. Semantic Modeling
Part IV : Transaction Management
15. Recovery
16. Concurrency
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Part V : Further Topics
17. Security
18. Optimization
19. Missing Information
20. Type Inheritance
21. Distributed Database
22. Decision Support
23. Temporal Database
24. Logic-Based Database
Part VI : Objects, Relations, and XL
25. Object Database
26. Object/Relational Database
27. The Wo