Textbooks and Readings
(See also Links)
Required:
Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Mary B. Prescott and Heikki Topi. Modern Database Management (Ninth Edition). Prentice Hall (Pearson Educational) : Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008. (ISBN 979-0-13-600391-5)
There may be delays in obtaining this book, so the older editions (7th or 8th) can also be used.
Optional:
Riccardi, Greg. Principles of Database Systems with Internet and Java Applications. Addison-Wesley : Reading, Mass., 2001. (ISBN 0-201-61247-X)
Atre, S. Data Base: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance, and Management. (Second Edition). Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co. : Menlo Park, California, 1985.
Garcia-Molina, Hector, Jeffrey D. Ullman and Jennifer Widom. Database Systems: The Complete Book. Prentice Hall : Upper Saddle River, NJ (2002) (ISBN 0-13-031995-3)
Koneman, P. Advanced Projects for Microsoft Access 2000 Prentice Hall : Upper Saddle River, NJ (2001) (ISBN 0-13-088541-X)
Additional (Optional) Reading:
Atkinson, Malcolm P. "Database Systems," Journal of Documentation 35:1 (March 1979) 49-91. .
Cattel, R.G.G. (editor). "Special Section: Next-Generation Database Systems." Communications of the ACM 34:10 (October 1991) 30-120 .
Clark, Jon D. Database Selection, Design and Administration. Praeger Publishers, New York (1980). (SOCS QA76.9.D3.C52) .
Computing Surveys 8:1 (March 1976). (Entire issue on DBMS). (MATH QA76.5.A1.C67)
Codd, E. F. "A Relational Model for Large Shared Data Banks," Communications of the ACM 13:6 (June 1970) 377-387.
Date, C. J. Database: A Primer. Addison Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1983. (MAIN, QA76.9.D3.D366)
Date, C. J. An Introduction to Database Systems. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Mass. (1986), Fourth Edition. (MAIN, QA76.9.D3.D37)
Davis, William S. and Schreiner, Paul Computing Fundamentals: dBaseIV, Addison Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, 1990.
Gallaher-Brown, Linda "Updating the Updatable Database," DLA Bulletin 5:2 (August 1985) 7-13.
Groff, James R. and Weinberg, Paul N. Using SQL Berkeley, CA : Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Inmon, William H. Effective Data Base Design Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1981).
Kent, William. "A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory," Communications of the ACM 26:2 (February 1983) 120-125.
Koenig, M.E.D. "Special Tutorial: Data Relationships: Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems and Database Management Software," Information Technology and Libraries. September, 1985.
Leong-Hong, Belkis W. and Bernard K. Plagman. Data Dictionary/Directory Systems: Administration, Implementation and Usage. Wiley-Interscience (1982).
Lyon, John K. The Database Administrator. Wiley, New York (1976). (MAIN, HF5548.2.l931)
Martin, James. Computer Data-Base Organization. Second Edition, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1977). QA76.9.D3.M361
Martin, James. Principles of Data-Base Management. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1976). (MAIN, QA76.9.D3.M371)
McCracken, Daniel D. A Guide to NOMAD for Applications Development. National CSS, Wilton, Conn. (MAIN, XD81.1083)
O'Neil, Patrick Database: Principles, Programming, Performance. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman, 1994.
Olle, T. William. The CODASYL Approach to Data Base Management. Wiley, New York (1978). (MAIN, QA76.9.D3044)
Seal, Alan. "Data Structures, MARC and Online Access," In: Future of Online Catalogues. Gesamthochschulbibliotek Essen, Essen (1986) 71-86. (MAIN, Z699.A1.F871.1986)
Stonebraker, Michael. "Retrospective on a Database System," ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 5:2 (June 1980) 225-240.
Stonebraker, Michael (editor). Readings in database systems (2nd ed.) San Mateo, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1994. (Engin QA76.9.D3 R4 1994)
Teorey, Toby J. Database Modelling and Design: The Fundamental Principles (second edition) San Francisco : Morgan Kaufman, 1994.
Tsichritzis, Dionysios C. and Frederick H. Lochovsky. Data Base Management Systems. Academic Press, New York (1977). (ENGI, QA76.9.D3.T74)
Ullman, Jeffrey D. Principles of Database Systems. Computer Science Press, Rockville, Maryland (1980).
Ullman, Jeffrey D. Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems. Computer Science Press, Rockville, Maryland (1988).
Wiederhold, Gio. Database Design. Second Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York (1983). (MATH, QA76.9.D3.W531)
Wiederhold, Gio. File Organization for Database Design. McGraw-Hill, New York (1987).