Database Design and Implementation

Edward Sciore is a recently retired Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, Boston College. He is the author of numerous research articles on database systems, which span both theory and practice. His favorite activity, however, is to teach database courses to captive students. These teaching experiences, accumulated over a 35-year period, are what led to the writing of this text.

• 1. Database Systems.- 2. JDBC.- 3. Disk and File Management.- 4. Memory Management.- 5. Transaction Management.- 6. Record Management.- 7. Metadata Management.- 8.  Query Processing.- 9. Parsing.- 10. Planning.- 11. JDBC Interfaces.- 12. Indexing.- 13. Materialization and Sorting.- 14. Effective Buffer Utilization.- 15. Query Optimization.