Text books

• The primary text book is: Ramakrishnan R., Gehrke J.: Database Management Systems, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003 (Course covers only Chapters 8-18).
• A good alternative for the above text book is: Elmasri R,Navathe S.B.: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2003..

Lecture slides in pdf format (in Finnish) may be found on the Finnish Luennot-page.