This book is designed to provide a thorough grounding into the fundamentals of the subject while offering insights into new developments and new theories. The book retains al the winning ways of its previous edition, and is clear, simple and easy to understand.

- Clear exposition of topics on conceptual modelling, RDBMS and Structured Query Language.

- Succinct coverage of topics on distributed databases, object oriented and object-relational databases and XML databases.

- Presents adequate coverage of database security, data integrity, data mining and OLAP.

- Includes 1300 review questions, and 1800 objective type questions.

- Appendix contains 9 model question papers with tagged answers based on past university examination question papers.