The main textbook for this course:

• R. Elmasri and S.B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Databases (4th Edition), 0321204484, Addison-Wesley, 2004.
  The course follows this book. Note that the online course material refers occasionally to certain pages in the book. In that case, the Second Edition is referred to. The second edition is fine in principle, except that it doesn't include the Chapter on Web databases.

Other good textbooks:

• R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke, Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition, ISBN 0-07-246563-8, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2003
• P. Atzeni, S. Ceri, S. Paraboschi and R. Torlone, Database Systems - Concepts, Languages and Architectures, 0077095006, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1999
• C. Date, Introduction to Database Systems, 7th Edition, ISBN 0-201-38590-2, Addison-Wesley, 1999.