Database System Concepts
by Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz · Silberschatz
The standard university textbook on relational database systems, covering the relational model, SQL, schema design and normalisation, storage and indexing, query processing, transactions, concurrency control and recovery. Widely assigned as the core text for an undergraduate database course.
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