Database management : principles and products

I. DBMS CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES. 1. The Industry Today. 2. Overview of Database Models. 3. Major Components and Functions. 4. The Relational Database Approach. 5. Introduction to SQL. II. CONTEMPORARY DBMS TECHNOLOGIES. 6. Client/Server Environments. 7. Distributed Databases. 8. Replication or Copy Management Services. 9. Middleware. 10. Parallelism. III. COMMERCIAL RELATIONAL DBMS PRODUCTS. 11. Introduction and Sample Database. 12. IBM's DB2. 13. Tandem's NonStop SQL. 14. Oracle's Oracle. 15. Sybase's SQL Server. 16. Computer Associates' CA-OpenIngres. IV. OBJECT ORIENTATION AND DBMSs. 17. The Object DBMS Approach. 18. The Extended Relational and Hybrid Approaches.