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

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

Decision Support Systems Data Analysis and OLAP Data Warehousing Data Mining

Failure Classification Storage Structure Recovery and Atomicity Log-Based Recovery Shadow Paging Recovery With Concurrent Transactions Buffer Management Failure with Loss of Nonvolatile Storage Advanced Recovery Techniques ARIES Recovery Algorithm Remote Backup Systems

Lock-Based Protocols Timestamp-Based Protocols Validation-Based Protocols Multiple Granularity Multiversion Schemes Insert and Delete Operations Concurrency in Index Structures

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

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

Overview Measures of Query Cost Selection Operation Sorting Join Operation Other Operations Evaluation of Expressions

Basic Concepts Ordered Indices B+-Tree Index Files B-Tree Index Files Static Hashing Dynamic Hashing Comparison of Ordered Indexing and Hashing Index Definition in SQL Multiple-Key Access

Overview of Physical Storage Media Magnetic Disks RAID Tertiary Storage Storage Access File Organization Organization of Records in Files Data-Dictionary Storage Storage Structures for Object-Oriented Databases