Introduction Transformation of Relational Expressions Catalog Information for Cost Estimation Statistical Information for Cost Estimation Cost-based optimization Dynamic Programming for Choosing Evaluation Plans Materialized views

Transaction Concept Transaction State Concurrent Executions Serializability Recoverability Implementation of Isolation Transaction Definition in SQL Testing for Serializability

Failure Classification Storage Structure Recovery and Atomicity Log-Based Recovery Remote Backup Systems

Centralized and Client-Server Systems Server System Architectures Parallel Systems Distributed Systems Network Types

Introduction I/O Parallelism Interquery Parallelism Intraquery Parallelism Intraoperation Parallelism Interoperation Parallelism Design of Parallel Systems

Decision Support Systems Data Warehousing Data Mining Classification Association Rules Clustering

Relevance Ranking Using Terms Relevance Using Hyperlinks Synonyms., Homonyms, and Ontologies Indexing of Documents Measuring Retrieval Effectiveness Web Search Engines Information Retrieval and Structured Data Directories

Complex Data Types and Object Orientation Structured Data Types and Inheritance in SQL Table Inheritance Array and Multiset Types in SQL Object Identity and Reference Types in SQL Implementing O-R Features Persistent Programming Languages Comparison of Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases

Performance Tuning Performance Benchmarks Standardization E-Commerce Legacy Systems

Temporal Data Spatial and Geographic Databases Multimedia Databases Mobility and Personal Databases