Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and S. Sudarshan’s Database System Concepts 6th Edition is a comprehensive book for undergraduates studying a course in Database Systems at the college level. The book comprises of ten parts through which it covers all the theoretical concepts behind databases. It puts forth the concepts in a way that the students can begin working with databases immediately. This book is quintessential for candidates taking up the subject at a junior or middle level in their undergraduate study.

About the Authors
Abraham Silberschatz is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He is renowned for his books on Operating System Concepts and Database Management.
Professor Silberschatz completed his PhD at the New York State University at Stony Brook and worked as the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories and prior to that as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas in Austin. His research interests lie in Operating Systems, Database Systems, Real-time Systems, Storage Systems Network Management and Distributed Systems.
Henry F. Korth is Weiseman Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. He is renowned for his works on Mobile Computing and Time-Constrained Transaction Management.
Prof. Korth completed his PhD. at Princeton University. He was the Director of Database Principles Research at Bell Laboratories, NJ. He is interested in the research of XML data management, web-based data, main-memory database systems, real-time systems, parallel systems and other topics
S. Sudarshan is a Professor in the Department of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is known for his books: Database Management Systems: Strayer University Custom Edition and Oracle 8I.
Prof. Sudarshan completed his PhD. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and worked as a Member of Technical Staff in the Database Research Group at Bell Laboratories. His research interests include query processing and optimization, authorization, and keyword querying of databases.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1: Relational Databases
Chapter 2: Introduction to the Relational Model
Chapter 3: Introduction to SQL
Chapter 4: Intermediate SQL
Chapter 5: Advanced SQL
Chapter 6: Formal Relational Query Languages

Part II: Database Design
Chapter 7: Database Design and the E-R Model
Chapter 8: Relational Database Design
Chapter 9: Application Design and Development

Part III: Data Storage and Querying
Chapter 10: Storage and File Structure
Chapter 11: Indexing and Hashing
Chapter 12: Query Processing
Chapter 13: Query Optimization

Part IV: Transaction Management
Chapter 14: Transactions
Chapter 15: Concurrency Control
Chapter 16: Recovery System

Part V: System Architecture
Chapter 17: Database-System Architectures
Chapter 18: Parallel Databases
Chapter 19: Distributed Databases

Part VI: Data Mining and Information Retrieval
Chapter 20: Data Mining
Chapter 21: Information Retrieval

Part VII: Specialty Databases
Chapter 22: Object-Based Databases
Chapter 23: XML
Chapter 24: Advanced Application Development
Chapter 25: Advanced Data Types and New Applications
Chapter 26: Advanced Transaction Processing

Part VIII: Case Studies
Chapter 27: PostgreSQL
Chapter 28: Oracle
Chapter 29: IBM DB2 Universal Database
Chapter 30: Microsoft SQL Server

Part IX: Appendices
Appendix A: Detailed University Schema
Appendix B: Other Relational Query Languages
Appendix C: Advanced Relational Database Design
Appendix D: Network Model
Appendix E: Hierarchical Model