Database Management Systems / Alexis Leon & Mathews Leon.

Data, information and information processing -- Secondary (auxiliary) storage device -- Files, file organization and file structure -- Indexing and hashing -- Introduction to database management systems (DBMS) -- Software development life cycle (SDLS) and database development life cycle (DDLC) -- Introduction to relational database management systems (RDBMS) -- Database architecture and data modeling -- Entity-relationship (E-R) modeling -- Enhanced entity-relationship (EER) model -- Data normalization -- Relational algebra and relational calculus -- Tables used in this book -- Introduction to structured query language (SQL) -- Tables, views and indexes -- Nulls -- Queries and sub queries -- Aggregate functions -- Insert, update and delete operations -- Cursors -- Joins and unions -- Programming with SQL -- Query-by-example (QBE) -- QUEL -- Triggers -- Query processing and optimization -- Database security -- Data integrity -- Transaction management and concurrency control -- Backup and recovery -- Evolution of computing models -- Client/server technology and client/server databases -- Distributed databases -- Multidimensional data and databases -- Parallel processing and parallel databases -- Spatial and multimedia databases -- Mobile computing and mobile databases -- Web databases -- Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) -- Data warehouses and data marts -- Data mining -- On-line transaction processing (OLTP) -- On-line analytical processing (OLAP) -- Customer relationship management (CRM) -- Supply chain management (SCM) -- Geographic information system (GIS).