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Garcia-Molina, Ullman & Widom,  Database Systems: The Complete Book, 2/E

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• Many real-world examples.

  • Offers a readable and engaging presentation.

• Extensive treatment of database modeling—Includes detailed and separate explanations of how to use E/R and ODL to design databases.

  • Teaches about this important first step of the planning process.

• Excellent, up-to-date and detailed coverage of SQL—Includes coverage of object-relational systems and many aspects of the new SQL:1999 standard.

  • Provides a more extensive treatment of query processing than other books on the market.

• Discussion of the technologies used to connect database programming with C or Java code—Includes discussions of SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, and JDBC.

  • Gives students practical advice on integrating state-of-the-art technologies with databases.

• Coverage of advanced issues important to database designers and users.

  • Includes discussions of views, integrity constraints, assertions, triggers, transactions, authorization, and recursion in SQL:1999.

• Discussions of how to successfully plan a database application before building it.

  • Reflects how these plans are developed in the real world.

• Coverage of topics such as designing storage structures and implementing a variety of indexing schemes.

  • Shows students how to build efficient database management systems.

• Extensive coverage of query processing and optimization.

  • Shows students how to fine tune database systems to improve performance.

• Comprehensive coverage of transaction processing mechanisms for concurrency control and recovery, including distributed and long-duration transactions.

  • Shows how to design complex database systems that can handle real-world business applications.

• Coverage of information integration, including data warehousing, mediation, OLAP, data-cube systems, and data mining.

  • Exposes readers to cutting edge technology used in business applications.

• Extensive exercises—In almost every section.

  • Provides students with the opportunity to practice and apply the concepts they've learned in each chapter.

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(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Summary and References sections.)

 1. The Worlds of Database Systems.

Database Systems & Design  (Computer Science)

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  Database Systems: The Complete Book, 2/E
  Garcia-Molina, Ullman & Widom
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1248 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131873253 | ISBN-13: 9780131873254
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  For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments.

  
  

  Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems.

  The first half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer. It covers the latest database standards SQL:1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts. The second half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor. It focuses on storage structures, query processing, and transaction management. The book covers the main techniques in these areas with broader coverage of query optimization than most other texts, along with advanced topics including multidimensional and bitmap indexes, distributed transactions, and information integration techniques.

   

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JEFFREY D. ULLMAN is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of 16 books, including Elements of ML Programming (Prentice Hall 1998). His research interests include data mining, information integration, and electronic education. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the Knuth Prize.

JENNIFER WIDOM is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests include query processing on data streams, data caching and replication, semistructured data and XML, and data warehousing. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and has served on numerous program committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards.

HECTOR GARCIA-MOLINA is the L. Bosack and S. Lerner Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests include digital libraries, information integration, and database application on the Internet. He was a recipient of the SIGMOD Innovations Award and is a member of PITAC (President's Information-Technology Advisory Council).

Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, and Jennifer Widom, well-known computer scientists at Stanford University, have written an introduction to database systems with a comprehensive approach. The first half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer. It covers the latest database standards SQL-1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts. The second half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor. It focuses on management, covering the principal techniques in these areas with broader coverage of query optimization than most other texts. Advanced topics include multidimensional and bitmap indexes, distributed transactions, and information integration techniques. This comprehensive book is valuable either as an academic textbook or as a professional reference book.

• Offers a readable presentation with engaging, real-world examples. Includes aspects of SQL programming not found in some other texts: SQL/PSM (persistent stored modules), JDBC (Java interface), and SQL/CLI (ODBC, or open database connectivity).
• Introduces both object-oriented design, through the ODMG standard ODL, and object-relational design from the SQL-99 standard.
• Provides extensive coverage of query processing and query optimization, supported by an extended relational algebra that is designed to match the real features of SQL. Covers information integration, including warehousing, mediators, OLAP, data cubes, and data-mining techniques.
• Explains many important, specialized topics, such as error-correction in RAID disks, bitmap indexes, use of data statistics, and pointer swizzling.
• Supported by additional teaching materials on the book's home page at http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html.

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  Data Structures and Abstractions with Java, 2/E
  Carrano
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1024 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013237045X | ISBN-13: 9780132370455
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  For one- or two-semester courses in data structures (CS-2) in the departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business, and Management Information Systems.

    

  This is the most student-friendly data structures text available that introduces ADTs in individual, brief chapters – each with pedagogical tools to help students master each concept. Using the latest features of Java 5, this unique object-oriented presentation makes a clear distinction between specification and implementation to simplify learning, while providing maximum classroom flexibility.

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  First Course in Database Systems, A, 3/E
  Ullman & Widom
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013600637X | ISBN-13: 9780136006374
  Suggested retail price: $116.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $87.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior, and graduate levels in Computer Science departments.

   

  Written by well-known computer scientists, this accessible and succinct introduction to database systems focuses on database design and use. The authors provide in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer, leaving implementation for later courses. It is the first database systems text to cover such topics as UML, algorithms for manipulating dependencies in relations, extended relational algebra, PHP, 3-tier architectures, data cubes, XML, XPATH, XQuery, XSLT.

   

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  • Author Website (Open Access)  http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb.html
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  GOAL: Where virtual office hours are 24/7!
  Pearson
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136037747 | ISBN-13: 9780136037743
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  Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach
  Guzdial & Ericson
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131496980 | ISBN-13: 9780131496989
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  For CS1 Java programming.

   

  Using the video game generation’s fascination with digital multimedia as a springboard, this text teaches Java programming in a context that students find relevant and useful. Students learn to program using Java while creating interesting effects with sounds, pictures, web pages, and video.

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  Modern Operating Systems, 3/E
  Tanenbaum
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1104 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136006639 | ISBN-13: 9780136006633
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  For Introductory Courses in Operating Systems in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering programs.

   

  The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems (OS)technologies. The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant OS such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Tanenbaum also provides information on current research based on his experience as an operating systems researcher.

   

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  • Online Exercises - Provide hands-on experience with building as well as analyzing the performance of OS. In particular, these exercises have been designed to provide experience with analyzing the resource consumptions in Windows and Linux.
  • Simulation Exercises - Designed to provide experience with building some key components of an OS, including process scheduling, main memory allocation, paging algorithms and virtual memory, and file systems.
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  Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 6/E
  Stallings
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 840 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136006329 | ISBN-13: 9780136006329
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  For a one-semester undergraduate course in operating systems for computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering majors.

   

  Winner of the 2009 Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA)!

   

  Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles is a comprehensive and unified introduction to operating systems. By using several innovative tools, Stallings makes it possible to understand critical core concepts that can be fundamentally challenging. The new edition includes the implementation of web based animations to aid visual learners. At key points in the book, students are directed to view an animation and then are provided with assignments to alter the animation input and analyze the results.

   

  The concepts are then enhanced and supported by end-of-chapter case studies of UNIX, Linux and Windows Vista. These provide students with a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of modern operating systems and the types of design tradeoffs and decisions involved in OS design. Because they are embedded into the text as end of chapter material, students are able to apply them right at the point of discussion. This approach is equally useful as a basic reference and as an up-to-date survey of the state of the art.

   

  Resources

   

  William Stallings has prepared a robust suite of student and instructor resources, including a rich set of Animations to illustrate key functions and algorithms in OS design.  (Icons are placed at relevant points in the text to indicate that an animation is available.) Access them via the Prentice Hall page www.prenhall.com/stallings  or directly at the author's website http://www.williamstallings.com/OS/OS6e.html under the link "Useful Websites."  Visit Stalllings Computer Science Student Resource page at http://williamstallings.com/StudentSupport.html.

   

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