Database Systems: An Application-Oriented Approach, Introductory Version, 2e

Designed for students learning databases for the first time, Database Systems: An Application-Oriented Approach, Introductory Version, 2/e,, presents the principles underlying the design and implementation of databases and their applications. This book consists of nine core chapters, including separate chapters on triggers (Chapter 7) and using SQL in an application (Chapter 8) that recognize the growing importance of application development in building database systems. Additional chapters (Chapters 11-17) cover database tuning, transaction processing, query processing, object-oriented databases and XML databases and provide a variety of ways to enrich students' introduction to databases.