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Summary: Great Introductory Text
Review: Good up-to-date introductory text on Database Systems. It covers all the bases although in a less quantative way than the Elmasri/Navathe or Ramakrishnan/Gehrke texts. Excellent web based support material. Also, if you get the Oracle Edition (ISBN 0201383721) you'll get 3 great CD's: Oracle Designer/2000, Rel. 2.1; Oracle Developer/2000, Rel. 2.1, and Personal Oracle 7, Rel. 7.3.4. I found this package of text and CD's to be the best value on the market.
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Summary: Make better databases
Review: Highly reccomendable. Read it, and you'll learn rules for making faster and easier to maintain databases.
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Summary: Amazingly well written
Review: I bought this book for a DBMS course in a university and I liked it. This is the best written book compared to any IT book on any subject I've read. Everything seems so easy and simple with this. And this covers a lot of ground, enough at least for any basic level DBMS course. It covers the basics, SQL, (E)ER-diagrams, O-O db's, warehousing, etc.What this is NOT: this is not a hands-on guide for real work. This is the first introduction to what you should know before beginning any DB-related work.
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Summary: Very Useful
Review: I bought this book for my database class and I found this book to be very useful. If this is your area of study, I would suggest keeping the book as a reference guide. I regret selling mine to a friend, as there were plenty of times where I thought I could refer back to it in other courses and projects.
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Summary: A Great Introduction to Relational DBMS
Review: I was introducted to this book as a student in Information Technology at DeVry. While this book will not help you become a Oracle DBA, it does provides a solid foundation in the theories surrounding relational DMBS. With this book accompanied by some PL / SQL books such as Oracle PL / SQL (ISBN: 1-56592-335-9) I think these would be great combinations.
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Summary: Very practical.
Review: Indeed, a brilliant rendition of practical information. I am currently working as a chief technical designer in a financial data warehouse project for a fortune 100 company. Chapter 11 (Data Warehousing) unfolded some time-critical points.
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Summary: Explains in Depth, important Info
Review: Much like Hoffer's other book, which focuses on an earlier stage in the Sys. Devel. Life Cycle (Analysis & Design), this is the next book in "the series".
This book goes over some of the fundamental concepts of modeling and relationship diagramming which were covered in the previous book. However, it picks up where the other left off and explain in-depth Database creation maintainence, and so on to a point where most can understand, and all can benefit from. Another good job from these strong Authors
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Summary: Dry reading
Review: Packed full of information but very dry reading. I think it doesn't engage the reader very well. I bought this book for a college course and found it difficult to read (and I have database experience) because the material was just well, dry and redundant. Could have been way better.
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Summary: Up-to-date database technology
Review: This book not only teaches Database Theories, it also keeps up with the lastest IT happenings that involves databases. The DataWarehouse chapter is one article that i've not seen in other database textbooks
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Summary: Dry reading
Review: This book provides an excellent foundation to the principles of database and data management. It explains some of the more difficult concepts quite well. I understand there is a newer edition, and as with all computer books, would generally recommend newer sources, but in this case I would recommend this one.
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