Pearson introduces the seventh edition of its best seller on database systems by Elmasri and Navathe. This edition is thoroughly revised to provide an in-depth and up-to-date presentation of the most important aspects of database systems and applications, and related technologies. It systematically builds on the core fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and database applications, which is the winning feature of this book Table of Content: Chapter 1 Databases and Database Users Chapter 2 Database Systems Concepts and Architecture Chapter 3 Data Modeling Using the Entity Relationship (ER) Model Chapter 4 The Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) Model Chapter 5 The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints Chapter 6 Basic SQL Chapter 7 More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification Chapter 8 The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus Chapter 9 Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping Chapter 10 Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques Chapter 11 Web Database Programming Using PHP Chapter 12 Object and Object-Relational Databases Chapter 13 XLM: Extensible Markup Language Chapter 14 Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases Chapter 15 Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies Chapter 16 Disc Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures Chapter 17 Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design Chapter 18 Strategies for Query Processing Chapter 19 Query Optimization Chapter 20 Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory Chapter 21 Concurrency Control Techniques Chapter 22 Database Recovery Techniques Chapter 23 Distributed Database Concepts Chapter 24 NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems Chapter 25 Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop Chapter 26 Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases Chapter 27 Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search Chapter 28 Data Mining Concepts Chapter 29 Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Chapter 30 Database Security Salient Features: 1. Chapters have been added and restructured to keep the text updated with recent concepts in big data processing, including MapReduce and Hadoop 2. Discussions of new technologies such as SQL systems and java technologies for web database programming, and other various new developments in databases are discussed throughout 3. Updated pedagogy and real world examples enhance the text throughout