
His primary research area is database systems, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Foundation. S Sudarshan is an Indian professor and head of the department of computer science and engineering at IIT, Bombay. Any use that differs from the above, and any for profit sale of the slides (in any form) requires the consent of the copyright owners contact Avi Silberschatz () to obtain the copyright. He procured his PhD from Princeton University. Paper copies of the slides may be sold strictly at the price of reproduction, to students of courses where the book is the prescribed text. Henry F Korth is a professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh University. He procured his PhD in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.

Relational Databases, System Architecture, Speciality Databases, and Transaction Management are a few. Then, the book is segregated into ten section.

The book commences with a basic introduction, which discusses fundamental topics like Database Languages, Database Users and Administrators, Database Design, and Data Storage and Querying. The basic and fundamental concepts are presented in an intuitive manner, and is designed to help students begin working with databases as soon as possible. The sixth edition of Database System Concepts is popularly considered to be one of the cornerstone texts of database education.
