An Introduction to Database Systems – C. J. Date – 8th Edition

I. PRELIMINARIES.
1. An Overview of Database Management.
2. Database System Architecture.
3. An Introduction to Relational Databases.
4. An Introduction to SQL.

II. THE RELATIONAL MODEL.
5. Types.
6. Relations.
7. Relational Algebra.
8. Relational Calculus.
9. Integrity.
10. Views.

III. DATABASE DESIGN.
11. Functional Dependencies.
12. Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF.
13. Further Normalization II: Higher Normal Forms.
14. Semantic Modeling.

IV. TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT.
15. Recovery.
16. Concurrency.

V. FURTHER TOPICS.
17. Security.
18. Optimization.
19. Missing Information.
20. Type Inheritance.
21. Distributed Databases.
22. Decision Support.
23. Temporal Databases.
24. Logic-Based Databases.

VI. OBJECTS, RELATIONS, AND XML.
25. Object Databases.
26. Object / Relational Databases.
27. The World Wide Web and XML.