About the Book

Now in its sixth edition, Silberschatz, Korth, and Sudarshans Database System Concepts is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible. The text emphasizes practical issues, applications, and implementation, coupled with coverage of key theoretical concepts in a clear and well motivated manner. To keep the focus manageable, concepts and algorithms are presented in a general setting that is not tied to one particular database system, but annotated where required with variations specic to particular database systems. Familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level programming language are the only prerequisites.

Sixth Edition

Database System Concepts

Sixth Edition

New in the Sixth Edition:

Revised coverage of SQL greater attention to variants of SQL in actual systems puts SQL rst, allowing earlier SQL projects New running example of a university database more intuitive and motivating for students illustrates more complex design tradeoffs Revised ER notation more compatible with UML Updated chapter on relational design more intuitive coverage followed by theory examples illustrating real world issues in database design  Expanded coverage of Web applications and security Improved coverage of indexing and query optimization Revised coverage of transaction management expanded coverage of basics in Chapter 14 detailed coverage of snapshot isolation revised and simplied coverage of recovery E  xpanded coverage of parallel and distributed databases database processing on multicore processors cloud-based data storage systems A  ll chapters have been revised to reect the latest advances in technology U  pdated website db-book.com new material for laboratory exercises online appendices, slides for all chapters solutions for exercises

Database System Concepts

About the Authors

Abraham Silberschatz (Ph.D. the State University of New York at Stony Brook) is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of
Computer Science and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include operating systems, database systems, storage systems, network management, and distributed systems. Prof. Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award. He is an author of the textbook Operating System Concepts.

Henry F. Korth (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Weiseman Professor in the Department of Computer Science and

Engineering at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh, he was Director of Database Principles Research at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. His research interests include database algorithms designed for modern computing architectures (multicore, multithread, multilevel cache), large web-based data repositories, real-time database systems, and parallel systems. Before joining Bell Laboratories, Prof. Korth was a Vice President of Panasonic Technologies, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. Prof. Korth is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a winner of the VLDB 10-year Award.

S. Sudarshan (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer-

ing at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Database Research Group at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prof. Sudarshan is an author of over 75 papers in different areas of database systems, and holds 13 patents. His current research interests include query processing and optimization, keyword querying of relational and graph-structured data, and tools for building and testing database applications. In addition to being the architect of several software systems dealing with database internals and keyword querying, he has also been responsible for building and maintaining a variety of database applications used in IIT Bombay.

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