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Summary: Comprehensive, easy to read, great book!
Review: As an experienced developer I found this book very useful.I was looking for a book to dive into the topic of databases, especially relational databases. I found this book as a good comprehensive introductory book. It covers a lot of different topics, Entity-Relation, Normalization, indexing, hashing, transactions and even some notes on object-oriented databases and recent trends. Prior to this book, I had read several books on relational-databases, though they were mostly product-specific books and I needed a general book like this one. This book is not a modeling book, so you have find some other book on the topic.
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Summary: Comprehensive, easy to read, great book!
Review: As an experienced developer I found this book very useful. I was looking for a book to dive into the topic of databases, especially relational databases. I found this book as a good comprehensive introductory book. It covers a lot of different topics, Entity-Relation, Normalization, indexing, hashing, transactions and even some notes on object-oriented databases and recent trends. Prior to this book, I had read several books on relational-databases, though they were mostly product-specific books and I needed a general book like this one. This book is not a modeling book, so you have find some other book on the topic.
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Summary: Comprehensive Book on Database Management Systems
Review: Comprehensive - that is the first word that comes to my mind after reading the book Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management. If you are in search of a book that will help you in mastering the subject of Database Management Systems this is it. The coverage is exhaustive and in-depth. While reading the table of contents and preface, I thought that the authors were very ambitious in the scope and are promising too much. But after reading the book, I am glad to say that I was mistaken - the authors have very successfully delivered whatever they have promised and more. The book is ideal for a student of database management systems. It is also a valuable book for the practicing professional. In fact the people, who are in the database profession, who uses databases or develop applications involving database management systems, will find this book invaluable and will be able to appreciate it much more than a beginner. It is a connoisseur's delight. The authors assume nothing. Each and every concept is built from scratch. The level of detail is so impressive that one can think this book as a collection of books of various database-related topics. For example, the section on SQL is so comprehensive that, it can stand on its own as a separate book. Such detailed coverage is found for all the topics in the book and is one of its best features. The case studies, worked examples and the presentation style, the concepts in boxes, excellent illustration, review questions, etc. will go a long way in improving the usefulness of the book. Another feature that makes this book stand out form other books on database management, is its coverage of the latest technologies. The chapters of Distributed Database Management, Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Database Management Systems, Web based database applications, Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining, etc. will prove invaluable to the students as well as the practitioners, novices as well as experts. When dealing with theoretical concepts like data modeling, normalization, it is the usual practice of most authors either to go too mathematical or to gloss over the subject. This book is by far the best in this respect as it takes an optimum approach. The explanations are not too mathematical, but the topics are explained in sufficient detail, so that the reader will have a very good understanding of the concepts like normalization, functional dependency, etc. Four most useful features of this book are the logical organization chart (suggesting the various paths that one can follow), the references, the suggested readings and the index. When reading or studying a book of this size - 1093 pages - these features are quite invaluable. The usefulness of the book could have been improved if an electronic version was provided. It would have made references easy. Also the Deductive database model is not covered. An appendix on the database related sites on the Internet would have been nice. Also a description of the major database systems and vendors could have been included. So in the final analysis, this is a must read and must have book for every database professional. For students it is a valuable course material. For professionals it is a very good self-study guide. For practitioners it an excellent refresher and a good way to keep track of the latest developments in the database field. An excellent buy! Copyright 1998, Pegasus Book Club
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Great book, very rich in content. Explains almost every part of logical and physical implementation of a database.
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Summary: extended relational
Review: hierarchical network extended relational(AKA OBJECT-RELATIONAL) OBJECT-ORIENTED DATA MODELS
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Summary: A Student's Dream
Review: I had to read this book as part of my course at university, and though one shouldn't really enjoy it, i found it a useful tool not only for my studies but also for further reading, it covered a great deal of information which proved invaluable. It was simple enough to learn from and informative enough to be used after your studies...in short a masterpiece of database literature.
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Summary: Information Lost Among Words
Review: I honestly do not see how this book could be useful to anyone. If you are a beginner, you will soon get lost among the endless, and pointless words, searching for the rare important information. I read paragraph after paragraph that had no real point, or would begin to describe a subject, and then just drop it, stating "but this is beyond the scope of this book." Then why spend two pages talking about it and refer to the concept later?? If you're someone looking for a good reference, look elsewhere as well. Most subjects do not get explained to the fullest, except for the database design model. I'd talk about this more, but it's beyond the scope of this review.
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Summary: Fine exposition
Review: I looked at a number of books on database theory, and found this to be the best. By far. It covers the relational calculus quickly and easily, and on the other end of the spectrum covers examples from the most broken-down type of database, Microsoft Access. And in the middle, it covers concepts relating to application programming to the politics of XML support as intermediary between different databases. Beautiful book, good editors.
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Summary: Excellent both for teaching and as a reference
Review: I really enjoyed giving a course based on this book. It is thorough and covers the full range of topics about databases, from design to issues about implementation and tuning. This book is not only good as course material, but also because it is excellent as a reference book, with many guidelines and lists on how to perform things, again from design to implementation.
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Summary: Excellent book for a database course.
Review: I used this book to teach a course in Database Systems. I thought it gave the best presentation of typical database topics that I have ever seen. I believe that data modeling is the essence of database and this book has more chapters on database design than any other five database books combined. The chapter on normalization was at just the right level. At the same time, the book is one of the few to acknowledge the need for denormalization. These authors have clearly been practitioners. It shows throughout the book.
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