Download or read book Fundamentals of Database Systems written by Ramez Elmasri and published by Benjamin Cummings. This book was released on 1994 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers all data models, including relational, hierarchical, entity-relationship and object-oriented. Material for the core undergraduate course in database is solid, with ample material for a graduate course focusing on implementations. database models using ObjectStore and 02 as examples; and theory and concepts of deductive database systems. New to this edition are updated coverage of SQL and object-oriented models; expanded coverage of transactions, concurrency control, and recovery; and a revised chapter on advanced data models that includes nested relational models, structural models and binary models.