Instructor’s Manual for an Introduction to Database Systems

The purpose of this manual is to give guidance on how to use the eighth edition of the book An Introduction to Database Systems — referred to throughout the manual as simply "the book," or "this book," or "the present book," or just “the eighth edition” — as a basis for teaching a database course.Показать полностьюThe purpose of this manual is to give guidance on how to use the eighth edition of the book An Introduction to Database Systems — referred to throughout the manual as simply "the book," or "this book," or "the present book," or just “the eighth edition” — as a basis for teaching a database course. The book is suitable for a primary (one- or two-semester) course at the junior or senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level; it also contains some more forward-looking and research-oriented material that would be relevant to a more advanced course. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of (a) the storage and file management capabilities (indexing, hashing, etc.) of a modern computer system, and (b) the features of a typical high-level programming language (Java, Pascal, C, PL/I, etc.).