CS4432.
Database Systems II
Required
Textbook /
Reading
We will
follow the required textbook below. It is strongly advised to have
access to this book for the entire term.
- Database
Systems: The Complete Book, Second Edition
- Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman and
Jennifer D. Widom
- Prentice Hall, 2009.
- ISBN: 9780131873254
- URL:
The Prentice-Hall (Pearson Ed) Web Page
Online
Material Related to the Book
Useful material
related to this book can be found at the open
access Author Website.
In particular, it includes Power Point slides, teaching notes,
assignments, projects, Oracle Programming Guidelines, and solutions to
selected exercises, for your perusal.
As you may already know, this book has also been used as a "Recommened
Book" the first course in databases at WPI (CS3431). That is, roughly
the first 10 chapters of this book are covered by CS3431, while the
next 10 chapters are covered by CS4432.
Other References / Reading
There are several
other excellent database textbooks available, which cover the syllabus
for this course, and you may also find them useful for
reference.
- Database
Management
Systems, by Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke,
McGraw-Hill.
- Fundamentals of
Database Systems, by Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Addison
Wesley.
- An Introduction
to
Database Systems, by C. J. Date, Addison
Wesley.