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Recommended references for COMP5338

Note that there is no single textbook required in COMP5338; each book below covers some but not all of our material. Copies of these are in Special Reserve at SciTech library.

  • Database systems : the complete book / Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom. (2nd ed) 005.74 233 A
  • Database management systems / Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke. (3rd ed) 005.74 177 A
  • Readings in database systems / edited by Joseph M. Hellerstein and Michael Stonebraker (4th ed) 005.74 61 C
  • Querying XML : XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context / Jim Melton and Stephen Buxton 005.72 177
  • Developing time-oriented database applications in SQL / Richard T. Snodgrass 005.756 31
  • Spatial databases : technologies, techniques and trends / Yannis Manolopoulos, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Michael Gr. Vassilakopoulos, [editors]. 005.74 243
  • Spatial databases : a tour / Shashi Shekhar, Sanjay Chawla. 910.285 112