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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
School of Information Sciences

INFSCI 2710 - Database Management

(Spring 1999)

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Literature

Textbooks

Avi Silberschatz, Henry Korth, S. Sudarshan:
Database System Concepts, Third Edition.
McGraw-Hill, 1998, 0-07-031086-6, 864 pages.
[McGraw-Hill page about this book] [Amazon.Com Page] [Author's Page] [Errata]

Ramez Elmasri / Shamkant B. Navathe:
Fundamentals of Database Systems, Second Edition
Benjamin/Cummings, Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-8053-1753-8 (Softcover), 873 pages.
Table of Contents
The Third Edition has appeared.

Raghu Ramakrishnan:
Database Management Systems.
McGraw-Hill, 1997, ISBN 0-07-050775-9, 768 pages.
[McGraw-Hill page about this book] [Amazon.com Page]
A Second Edition is announced for August 1999.

Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom:
Database System Implementation.
Prentice Hall, 1999/2000, ISBN 0-13-040264-8, 653 pages
[Ullman's Page about the book]

Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom:
A First Course in Database Systems.
Prentice Hall, April 1997, ISBN 0-13-861337-0, 470 pages
(Prentice Hall page about this book)

Paolo Atzeni, Stefano Ceri, Stefano Paraboschi, Riccardo Torlone:
Database Systems: Concepts, Languages and Architectures.
McGraw-Hill, 1999, 592 pages.

Fred R. McFadden, Jeffrey A. Hoffner, Mary B. Prescott:
Modern Database Management, 5th Edition.
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 656 pages, ISBN 0805360549.
[Spree.Com Page]

Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu:
Foundations of Databases, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-201-53771-0, 704 pages

C.J. Date:
An Introduction to Database Systems, 6th Edition.
Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-201-54329-X

Collection of Influential Research Papers

Michael Stonebraker and Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California, Berkeley), Editors:
Readings in Database Systems, Third Edition.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, March 1998, ISBN 1-55860-523-1, 752 pages, $59.95
(Information from the Editors)

SQL

C.J. Date, Hugh Darwen:
A Guide to the SQL Standard, 4th Edition.
Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-96426-0

R.F. van der Lans:
Introduction to SQL, 2nd Edition.
Addison-Wesley, 1993.

J. Melton / A.R. Simon:
Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide.
Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.

Oracle

(under construction)

Rajshekhar Sunderraman:
Oracle Programming; A Primer.
Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-35753-4, Softcover, 258 pages, ca. $25.95.
[Page of the Author] [Amazon.com Page] [Open Group Books]

George Koch, Kevin Loney:
Oracle8: The Complete Reference.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, 1997, ISBN 0-07-882396-X, 1299 pages, $59.99.

Michael Abbey and Michael J. Corey:
Oracle8: A Beginner's Guide.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-882393-5, 767 pages, $39.99.

Robert J. Muller:
Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook, 2nd Edition.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-882326-9, 728 pages, $44.99.

Steve Bobrowski:
Oracle8 Architecture.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, 1998, ISBN 0-07-882274-2, 356 pages, $34.99.

Kevin Loney:
Oracle8 DBA Handbook.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-882406-0, 822 pages, $44.99.

Michael J. Corey, Michael Abbey, Daniel J. Dechichio, Ian Abramson:
Oracle8 Tuning.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, 1998, ISBN 0-07-882390-0, 608 pages, $44.99.

Scott Urman:
Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-882305-6, 1021 pages, $44.99.

Michael J. Corey, Michael Abbey, Ian Abramson, Ben Taub:
Oracle8 Data Warehousing.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-882511-3, 686 pages, $44.99.

Cary Jensen, Loy Anderson, Blake Stone:
Oracle JDeveloper.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-211863-6, 688 pages, $44.99.

Jason S. Couchman:
Oracle Certified Professional: DBA Certification Exam Guide.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, ISBN 0-07-882549-0, 1257 pages, $99.99.
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Jason S. Couchman:
Oracle 8i Certified Professional: DBA Certification Exam Guide With CDROM.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, August 1999, ISBN 0072120878, 1200 pages, $99.99.
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Michael R. Ault:
Oracle DBA Exam Cram: Test 1 and Test 2.
The Coriolis Group, ISBN 1576102629, 413~pages, $20.99.
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Mark Gurry, Peter Corrigan:
Oracle Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (with disk).
O'Reilly & Asociates, December 1996, ISBN 1565922379, 964 pages.
[bookpool.com page] [Amazon.com Page]

Peter Koletzke, Paul Dorsey:
Oracle Designer Handbook, 2nd Edition.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, 1998, ISBN 0-07-882417-6, 1075 pages, $39.99.
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Paul Dorsey, Joseph R. Hudicka:
Oracle8 Design Using UML Object Modeling.
Osborne / ORACLE Press, 1998, ISBN 0-07-882474-5, 496 pages, $39.99.
[Amazon.com Page]

DB2

Don Chamberlin:
A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-55860-482-0, 800 pages, $59.95

Jonathan Cook, Calene Janacek, Dwaine Snow:
The DB2 Cluster Certification Guide.
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-081900-X, 544 pages, 1998.
[IBM-Page]

Roman Brandl et.al.:
DB2 Universal DRDA Certification Guide.
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-082425-9, 500 pages, 1998/99.

Object-Oriented Database Systems

R.G.G. Catell, D.K.~Barry, D.~Bartels (Editors):
The Object Database Standard: ODMG 2.0.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1-55860-463-4, 288 pages, $36.95

A. Kemper / G. Moerkotte:
Object-Oriented Database Management.
Prentice Hall, 1994.
Out of print.

Michael Stonebraker with Dorothy Moore:
Object-Relational DBMSs: The Next Great Wave.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996, ISBN 1-55860-397-2, 216 pages, $39.95
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There is a second edition, published in 1998.

Chris J. Date, Hugh Darwen:
Foundation for Object/Relational Databases; The Third Manifesto.
Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0201309785, 496 pages.
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OODB Benchmark Bibliography (on-line)

M.E.S. Loomis and A.B. Chaudhri (eds.):
Object Databases in Practice.
Prentice-Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-899725-X
(WWW-page by the authors)

Active Rules, Triggers

Jennifer Widom and Stefano Ceri, Editors:
Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1995, ISBN 1-55860-304-2, 332 pages, $69.95

Norman W. Paton (Editor):
Active Rules in Database Systems,
Springer-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 0-387-98529-8.

Distributed Database Systems

M. Tamer Özsu, Patrick Valduriez:
Principles of Distributed Database Systems, 2nd Edition.
Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-659707-6. [Pretice Hall Page] [Page of the Authors]

Database Design

Toby J. Teorey (University of Michigan):
Database Modeling and Design, Third Edition.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-55860-500-2, 352 pages, $31.96.

H. Mannila / K.-J. Räihä:
The Design of Relational Databases.
Addison-Wesley, 1992.
Out of print (according to Amazon.com)

C. Batini / S. Ceri / S. Navathe:
Conceptual Database Design - An Entity Relationship Approach.
Benjamin/Cummings, 1992, ISBN 0-8053-0244-1i, 470 pages.
[Amazon.com Page]

Robert J. Muller:
Database Design for Smarties - Using UML for Data Modeling.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1-55860-515-0, 442 pages, $39.96.
[Mamazon.com Page]

Richard Barker:
CASE*Method: Tasks and Deliverables.
Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0201416972, $69.06. [Amazon.com Page]

Richard Barker:
CASE*Method: Entity Relationship Modelling.
Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0201416964, $60.94. [Amazon.com Page] [BestBookBuys Price Comparison]

Richard Barker, Cliff Longman:
CASE*Method: Function and Process Modelling.
Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0201565250, $62.81. [Amazon.com Page] [BestBookBuys Price Comparison]

Dai Clegg, Richard Barker:
CASE*Method Fast-Track: A Rad Approach.
Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 020162432X, $43.13. [Amazon.com Page]

Linda Hickman, Cliff Longman:
CASE*Method: Business Interviewing.
Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0201593726, 217 pages, $44.06. [Amazon.com Page]

A.-W. Scheer:
Business Process Engineering: Reference Models for Industrial Enterprises.
Springer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3540638679. [Amazon.Com Page]

A.-W. Scheer:
ARIS: Business Process Modeling, 2nd Edition.
Springer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3540644385. [Amazon.Com Page]

J. Rumbaugh, I. Jacobson, G. Booch,: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual.
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 550 pages, ISBN 020130998X. [Amazon.Com Page] [BestBookBuys Price Comparison]

G. Booch, I. Jacobson, J. Rumbaugh: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide.
Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 512 pages, ISBN 0201571684. [Amazon.Com Page] [BestBookBuys Price Comparison]

A.-W. Scheer:
ARIS: Business Process Frameworks, 2nd Edition.
Springer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3540644393. [Amazon.Com Page]

James J. Odell:
Advanced Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML.
Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 052164819X. [Spree.Com Page]

Maciaszek, L.A.:
Requirements Analysis and System Design. Developing Information Systems with UML.
Addison Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0201-70944-9, 378p. [Author's Page]

Query Processing, Transaction Processing, Performance

Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom:
Database System Implementation.
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130402648, 672 pages, $60.00
[Amazon.com Page]

Jim Gray, Editor:
The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems, Second Edition.
1993, ISBN 1-55860-292-5, 592 pages, $67.95

Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter:
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1993, ISBN 1-55860-190-2, 1070 pages, $84.95

Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Nathan Goodman:
Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems.
Addison-Wesley Longman, 1987, sold out.
[Free Online Version]

Spatial Database Systems

Ralf Hartmut Gueting:
Tutorial on Spatial Database Systems.
[http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/inf/pi4/Tutorial-neu.pdf]

Information Retrieval

This is still completely incomplete.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto:
Modern Information Retrieval.
Addison-Wesley-Longman, May 1999.
[Alternative Site]

Other Books

Richard T. Snodgrass:
Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, July 1999, ISBN 1-55860-436-7, 504+xxiv pages.

Alan R. Simon:
Strategic Database Technology: Management for the Year 2000.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1995, ISBN 1-55860-264-X, 446 pages, $38.95

If you can recommend any further books, please tell me. This list is constantly under construction.

Stefan Brass (sbrass@sis.pitt.edu), January 25, 1999

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