CS 542: Database
Management Systems
Required Textbook / Reading
- Database Management
Systems.
- Third Edition (information and additional resources
available online at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/)
- Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke
- McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 0-07-246563-8
- URL:
The book page on McGraw-Hill
For additional
references on SQL, online references are very useful. You may also use
the following book.
- Oracle9i
Programming: A Primer by Rajshekhar Sunderraman,
Addison-Wesley
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 Systems: The
Complete Book, by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, and
Jennifer Widom, Prentice Hall.
-
Fundamentals of
Database Systems, by Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Addison
Wesley.
-
An Introduction to
Database Systems, by C. J. Date, Addison
Wesley.