More Background
Overview Texts:
- Ramakrishnan, Database Management Systems (the cow book)
- Silberschatz, Korth, Sudarshan: Database System Concepts (the sailboat book)
- O’Neil: Database Principles, Programming, Performance
- Ullman & Widom: A 1st Course in Database Systems
Graduate-level Texts
- Stonebraker & Hellerstein, eds. Readings in Database Systems (http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu)
- Gray & Reuter: Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques.
- Ullman: Principles of Database Systems
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