Part I: Foundations. Overview of database systems ; Introduction to database design ; The relational model ; Relational algebra and calculus ; SQL : queries, constraints, triggers -- Part II: Application development. Database application development ; Internet applications -- Part II: Storage and indexing. Overview of storage and indexing ; Storing data : disks and files ; Tree-structured indexing ; Hash-based indexing -- Part IV: Query evaluation. Overview of query evaluation ; External sorting ; Evaluating relational operators ; A typical relational query optimizer -- Part V: Transaction management. Overview of transaction management ; Concurrency control ; Crash recovery -- Part VI: Database design and tuning. Schema refinement and normal forms ; Physical database design and tuning ; Security and authorization -- Part VII: Additional topics. Parallel and distributed databases ; Object-database systems ; Deductive databases ; Data warehousing and decision support ; Data mining ; Information retrieval and XML data ; Spatial data management ; Further reading ; The minibase software.