Category: Books- Relational Databases and Databases in General

H. Garcia-Molina, J. Ullman, J. Widom,  Database Systems: The Complete Book,  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2002 (Replaces Database System Implementation, 1999.)

J. Melton, A. Eisenberg, Understanding SQL and Java Together, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000, ISBN 1-55860-562-2

T. Härder, E. Rahm,  Datenbanksysteme : Konzepte und Techniken der Implementierung (in German), 2nd edition, Springer, 2001, ISBN 3-540-42133-5

A. Chaudri, A. Rashid, R. Zicari, XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003, ISBN 0201844524

S. Ambler,  Agile Database Techniques : Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0-471-20283-5

E. Pugh and J. D. Gradecki, Professional Hibernate (Programmer to Programmer), Wrox, 2004, ISBN 0764576771

M. Scardina et al,  Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build, & Manage XML Applications, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2004, ISBN 0072229527

A. Rashid, Aspect-Oriented Database Systems, Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-00948-5

A. Kemper and A. Eickler, Datenbanksysteme. Eine Einführung (In German), Oldenbourg, 2004 (5th edition), ISBN 3-486-27392-2

W. Rahayu, D. Taniar, and E. Pardede,  Object-Oriented Oracle, IRM Press, 2005, ISBN 1591408105