Sumathi S., Esakkirajan S. Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems

Springer, 2007. — 776 p. — ISBN: 3540483977, 978-3540483977.This book provides comprehensive coverage of fundamentals of database management system. It contains a detailed description on Relational Database Management System Concepts. There are a variety of solved examples and review questions with solutions. This book is for those who require a better understanding of relational data modeling, its purpose, its nature, and the standards used in creating relational data model.Overview of Database Management System
Entity–Relationship Model
Relational Model
Structured Query Language
PL/SQL
Database Design
Transaction Processing and Query Optimization
Database Security and Recovery
Physical Database Design
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Objected-Oriented and Object Relational DBMS
Distributed and Parallel Database Management Systems
Recent Challenges in DBMS
Projects in DBMS
A Dictionary of DBMS Terms
B Overview of Commands in SQL
C Pioneers in DBMS
D Popular Commercial DBMS