Includes bibliographical references and index.

Databases and Database Users --- Database System Concepts and Architecture --- Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model --- The Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) Model --- The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints --- Basic SQL --- More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification --- The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus --- Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping --- Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques --- Web Database Programming Using PHP --- Object and Object-Relational Databases --- XML: Extensible Markup Language --- Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases --- Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies --- Disk Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures --- Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design -- Strategies for Query Processing --- Query Optimization --- Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory --- Concurrency Control Techniques --- Database Recovery Techniques --- Distributed Database Concepts --- NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems --- Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop --- Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases --- Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search --- Data Mining Concepts --- Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP --- Database Security --- Appendix A, Alternative Diagrammatic Notations for ER Models --- Appendix B, Parameters of Discs --- Appendix C, Overview of the QBE Language --- Appendix D, Overview of the Hierarchical Data Models --- Appendix E, Overview of the Network Data Model.