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Database System Concepts

3.75  ·  Rating Details ·  316 Ratings  ·  18 Reviews
"Database System Concepts," 5/e, is intended for a first course in databases at the junior or senior undergraduate, or first-year graduate, level. In addition to basic material for a first course, the text contains advanced material that can be used for course supplements, or as introductory material for an advanced course.

The authors assume only a familiarity with basic d
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Hardcover, 1142 pages
Published June 1st 2005 by McGraw-Hill Education (first published March 1st 1987)
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Ivan Idris
This book teaches about the inner workings, the nuts and bolts of databases without requiring a lot of prior knowledge:

Data Models
Relational Databases
Object Based Databases and XML
Data Storage and Querying
Transaction Management
Database System Architecture

Personally I feel that some material doesn’t belong here, such as XML, but it seems to be a tradition to include it. I found the chapter on indices quite interesting.

At the end of the book there are several chapters on popular commercial d
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Amanda Sastri
Gw beli di Palasari dalam format buku asli. Asli tapi bekas. Dapet dengan harga Rp 150.000. Pake duid ortu, jarang gw baca, gw eneg ma Database dan dari segi penjelasan ngejelimet dan... kayaknya ga nyambung ama apa yang dijelasin dosen gw.

Database gw dapet C. Alhamdulillah.
Abraham Krisnanda
Apr 07, 2013 Abraham Krisnanda rated it really liked it
Have good explanation of every chapters. But sometimes it doesn't cover every possible conditions. Bible of fundamental database.
Prashant Singh
Mar 11, 2016 Prashant Singh rated it it was amazing
Transaction chapter is explained very well and in very simple words.If you want to understand Conflict Serial. and View serializability then study from this directly because in other websites and youtube video don't explain like it is explained in this BOOK.
Gustavo
Jul 19, 2016 Gustavo rated it really liked it
Un libro muy bueno para el estudio de las bases de datos, completo
para quien quiere introducirse y saber un poco mas de consultas SQL
Readerbug
Dec 02, 2014 Readerbug marked it as to-read
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Irfin
Oct 30, 2008 Irfin rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Recommends it for: Computer science students
Recommended to Irfin by: Dr. Bernhard Sitohang
This book was used in my Manajemen Informasi class during 2003-2004. As indicated by its title, this book has an in-depth explanation about database system concepts. Though I never read this book completely, but I definitely sure it's a good text book for learning database system.
Prashant Singh
Apr 26, 2016 Prashant Singh rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
This book is MUST for GATE exam preparation and also to understand concepts better.Its better to check this book first for any doubt rather than searching the unreliable Internet resources.
Faizal
Jul 23, 2007 Faizal rated it it was amazing
Recommends it for: sapa aja yang mau belajar konsep database
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buku ini sangat lengkap dalam membahas dasar hingga penggunaan database pada tahap ahli. data mining, data warehousing, vector database, dsb...ada di sini. Layak untuk dibaca
Mohammad
Jul 22, 2007 Mohammad rated it really liked it
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Karl
Apr 16, 2008 Karl rated it really liked it
I wish there were some more in-depth examples, but as a survey book it's not too bad.
Mohammed Sheikh Salem
Theoretical Database concepts consecrate on Relationships and SQL Basics
Jenn
Dec 19, 2008 Jenn marked it as reference-material  ·  review of another edition
my SigOther's book - "borrowed" for the foreseeable future
Luis GC
Oct 27, 2015 Luis GC rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Un buen libro de texto sobre Bases de Datos
Hadi
Mar 28, 2008 Hadi rated it really liked it
4th eddition is more better than others.
Ritesh
better book is this.....
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Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE F
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