Database Management Systems

This comprehensive textbook is primarily designed for postgraduate students of management, computer application, computer science and information technology. It should also serve as a useful text for students of B.E./B.Tech offering courses in computer science & engineering and software engineering.
The book is divided into ten chapters. Beginning with a discussion on the basic concepts involved in database management, the text provides a thorough treatment of some important topics such as data structures, data models and data-base design by the inclusion of well-defined algorithms, examples, and real-life cases. There is also detailed coverage of data definition and data manipulation parts of IMS and PC-FOCUS (Hierarchical), IDMS (Network) and Interactive SQL (Relational) database languages, giving suitable programs based on case studies. Among other distinguishing features, the book:

• Introduces different types of data models
• Presents guidelines to implement the conceptual data model into the three data models: Hierarchical, Network and Relational
• Contains several case studies and more than 65 programs
• Gives solved examples and chapter-end problems
• Makes the reader proficient in designing databases as well as implementing, operating and maintaining them effectively.