Mcgraw-hill Education - Europe 2010 (6th edition). Softcover, 1152 pp
Database System Concepts by Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan is now in
its 6th edition and 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 is designed for a first
course in databases at the junior/senior undergraduate level or the
first year graduate level. It also contains additional material that can
be used as supplements or as introductory material for an advanced
course. Because the authors present concepts as intuitive descriptions, a
familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, and a
high-level programming language are the only prerequisites. Important
theoretical results are covered, but formal proofs are omitted. In place
of proofs, figures and examples are used to suggest why a result is
true.