Re: Materials for an Advanced Database course

"Larry Coon" <lmcoon_at_nospam_cox.net> wrote in message news:3E2A1055.11BE_at_nospam_cox.net...
> --CELKO-- wrote:
>
> > All I could find at Amazon was "Operating System Concepts" by
Abraham
> > Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Abraham Siberschatz, and Peter Baer
> > Galvin which is out of print and does not sound like a database
book.
>
> Here it is:
>
>
> We since switched to Fundamentals of Database Systems by
> Elmasri & Navathe:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805317554
>

Better still in my opinion is the Bernstein and Lewis book entitled:

Database and Transaction Processing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201708728/qid=1043003431/ sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7215533-3352042?v=glance&s=books

I tried the Date book as well as the Navathe book but I like this one better.

The coverage of transaction processing and concurrency control is excellent.

> This book was simply better in nearly every regard.
>
> And to get back to your original topic, the advanced db
> class used Transaction Processing by Gray & Reuter:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558601902
>
> Our advanced course focused on the implementation of a
> database system, covering costing, optimization, query
> processing, transaction management, recovery, etc.
>
> And for another data point, here's how Stanford breaks
> out their database classes:
>
> http://www-db.stanford.edu/db_pages/classes.html
>
>
> Larry Coon
> University of California
> larry_at_assist.org
> and lmcoon_at_home.com
Received on Sun Jan 19 2003 - 20:18:43 CET