TY - BOOK AU - Silberschatz, Abraham AU - Korth, Henry F. AU - Sudarshan, S. TI - Database system concepts SN - 9789332901384 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Mc-Graw-Hill, KW - Data warehousing KW - Microsoft SQL server KW - System architecture KW - Transactions KW - Relational database design N1 - Appendix A-E 1271-1281p.; Bibliography 1283-1314p.; Index 1315-1349p.; Reprint 2014 N2 - The sixth edition of Database System Concepts is popularly considered to be one of the cornerstone texts of database education. The basic and fundamental concepts are presented in an intuitive manner, and is designed to help students begin working with databases as soon as possible. The book commences with a basic introduction, which discusses fundamental topics like Database Languages, Database Users and Administrators, Database Design, and Data Storage and Querying. Then, the book is segregated into ten section. Relational Databases, System Architecture, Speciality Databases, and Transaction Management are a few. Chapters like Object-Relational Mapping, Relevance Ranking Using Terms, and Distributed Data Storage are discussed in detail. This edition also provides a revised coverage of SQL, with greater attention to variants of SQL in actual systems and SQL features. There is also new material on support vector machines, and validation of classifiers ER -