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Database Systems: The Complete Book
For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management sy
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Hardcover, 1119 pages
Published
October 2nd 2001
by Prentice Hall
(first published 1999)
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I've read all kinds of negative reviews about this book.
Most of them refer to it as boring; poorly written; too teoretical, so
I was skeptical about reading the book, but I had to as it is the book used in my university course in database systems.
The way I see it here are the strong and weak sides of the book.
(I've only read it half through).
Strong sides:
1) The best thing in the book is that the information in structured in small sections and it is easy to find information on a certain subject. ( ...more
Most of them refer to it as boring; poorly written; too teoretical, so
I was skeptical about reading the book, but I had to as it is the book used in my university course in database systems.
The way I see it here are the strong and weak sides of the book.
(I've only read it half through).
Strong sides:
1) The best thing in the book is that the information in structured in small sections and it is easy to find information on a certain subject. ( ...more
databases are boring. that's a huge reason the book got few stars from me, so keep that in mind. in its favor are a few key features. it certainly is complete. the theoretical aspects of database design, sql and the practice of implementing a database schema, concurrency control, and the more general task of large information management - all of these are included and more. and in fact, the chapters and sections are divided into adequately (although maybe overly) small bite size pieces made for
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A great book. Some of the things are outdated or could be taken away, but most of the content is very relevant and explained well. I wish there were more exercises and the solutions were available.
I found this book the most helpful when reading it and then looking over the Stanford videos that one of the authors did online. The videos make the book clearer.
After reading this book, I never want to ever see boyce codd normal form again. But important concepts, even today.
Using this book for a Graduate software engineering class.
This is a good reference book for database.
It made more sense than the professor.
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