CS240A- Winter 2001 Books

Textbooks for CS240A: Databases and Knowledge Bases

TEXTBOOKS REQUIRED

Zaniolo, C., S. Ceri, C. Faloutsos, R. Snodgrass, V.S. Subrahmanian and R. Zicari, Advanced Database Systems, Morgan-Kaufman, 1997. ISBN 1-55860-4443-X.
(We will cover the first 9 chapters of this book)
Don Chamberlin, A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-55860-482-0.
(This is the best tutorial and guide on DB2).
You can download the examples in the book for both Unix and Windows.

Other Books Recommended

Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000. ISBN 1-55860-489-8
Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, and Dan Suciu, Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML Morgan-Kaufman, 1999.
Ullman, J. D., and J. Widom, A First Course in Database Systems, Prentice Hall, 1997. (Chapter 8 is a good introduction to QLs and data models for O-O databases and SQL3)
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Database Management Systems, 1st ed. McGraw-Hill, 1997 (Comprehensive and covers implementation)
V.S. Subrahmanian Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, Morgan-Kaufman, 1997.
J. Melton and A. R. Simon Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide, Morgan-kaufman, 1993. (The definitive reference on SQL2 and extensions)