Computer Science
Database System Concepts
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2005, 1142pp, 5th ed.
In this undergraduate introductory textbook, which could also serve as a reference, the authors address both the fundamentals behind constructing and maintaining as database as well as describing the most common commercial software available. General topics also include data storage and querying, transaction management, data mining and information retrieval, system architecture, advanced topics and case studies.