3 Course Literature

The official textbook for this offering of the course is the following.

  1. Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fifth Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2006; ISBN: 0-321-41506-X (paper), 0-321-36957-2 (cloth).

While the fifth edition of this book is the official one, and all students are encouraged to obtain a copy, it appears to differ very little from the fourth edition in the sections which are covered in the course. The third edition, which is now somewhat dated, differs much more from these two. For completeness, course topics are listed below in Section 4 for all three editions.

In addition to the course text, there will be relatively detailed overhead slides. These materials will be available for download on the course web page.