This acclaimed revision of a classic database systems text equips students with a complete background into the basics of database, design, languages and system implementation. Database System Concepts, 3/e, provides the latest information combined with real-world examples to help students master concepts. All concepts are presented in a technically complete yet easy-to-understand style, and notations are always kept to a minimum. A running example of a bank enterprise illustrates concepts at work. To further optimize student comprehension, figures and examples, rather than proofs, are used to portray concepts and anticipated results.

New information on database system architecture, transaction-processing benchmarks, system performance tuning and temporal databases. Full coverage of data warehousing and data mining applications. Full coverage of recent applications incorporating multimedia information, mobile and wireless computing and the World Wide Web. A brand-new advanced topic section including spatial and geographic databases.
More detailed examples of database implementations. More SQL including significant information on planned revisions to the language. Increased discussions of object-oriented and object-relational models. Full coverage of transaction processing. A much greater number of references linking concepts to real world figures (disk size, speed, etc.).