( All chapters begin with an Introduction end with a Summary, Exercises, and Reference and Bibliography)

I. PRELIMINARIES.
1. An Overview of Database Management.
2. Database System Architecture.
3. An Introduction to Relational Databases.
4. An Introduction to SQL.
II. THE RELATIONAL MODEL.
5. Types.
6. Relations.
7. Relational Algebra.
8. Relational Calculus.
9. Integrity.
10. Views.
III. DATABASE DESIGN.
11. Functional Dependencies.
12. Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF.
13. Further Normalization II: Higher Normal Forms.
14. Semantic Modeling.
IV. TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT.
15. Recovery.
16. Concurrency.
V. FURTHER TOPICS.
17. Security.
18. Optimization.
19. Missing Information.
20. Type Inheritance.
21. Distributed Databases.
22. Decision Support.
23. Temporal Databases.
24. Logic-Based Databases.
VI. OBJECTS, RELATIONS, AND XML.
25. Object Databases.
26. Object / Relational Databases.
27. The World Wide Web and XML.
APPENDIXES.
Appendix A: The TransRelational™ Model.
Appendix B: SQL Expressions, Table Expressions, and Boolean Expressions.
Appendix C: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbol.
Appendix D: Online storage structures and access methods, database access: an overview, page sets and files, indexing, hashing, pointer chains, and compression techniques.
Index.

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