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Summary: Jimmeny Cricket, this book is the bestest ever.
Review: I love this book because it has lots of words in it, WOW. Holla at your boy.
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Summary: Poorly written
Review: I was extremely disappointed by this book (I borrowed it, thank God). It is sparse on several subjects, exercises lacks answers and the book is in general poorly written. Besides that, the book is a merge of two books and the integration of these books should never have been attempted.You may go to the book's home page and download a couple of chapters for free and decide for yourself. Sorry, I cannot possibly recommend this book.
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Summary: Understanding Databases
Review: This book helps you understand how databases works. The second half of the book explains how data is stored (100 pages), how indexes are built (100 pages), query processing (150 pages), transaction management (100 pages), and durability and recovery (50 pages). This is one of the best book, if not the best, on database implementation.
The first half of the book is about databases from the user's perspective (e.g. SQLs). Although I was mainly interested in the second half, I found the first half to be an excellent reference on SQL.
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Summary: Not good.
Review: This book is atleast 500 pages longer than it needed to be. It uses all to many words when presenting the information.
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Summary: Another LONG-WINDED book.
Review: This book is filled with copious repetition (see chapter one alone). Some concepts are not well presented. Explanations are too often compromised by awkward English usage. Wish the authors understand that a thick book does not make it a good one. Concise books are just what we need today.
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Summary: not a beginner's book
Review: This book is probably great if you are already an expert. Topics are presented very briefly with poor examples. Only a very small number of the questions have solutions, none of which are in the book. They are only available on the author's web site and some of them are wrong. The author really doesn't present his algorithms in a stepwise bulleted manner, even though most of them are well suited to that type of display. He chooses instead to bury algorithms in blocks of text, which makes it very difficult to use this book as a reference for assignments. His terminology is also very unclear. Unless you are already an expert, you will find yourself rereading sections four and five times before realizing that they are just plain inscrutable without some large body of prior knowledge. If you have a deep appreciation for obfuscation, or did your Phd work on databases, you'll probably love this book.
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Summary: Useless book
Review: This book is very difficult to read and poorly written. I was looking forward to reading this book because of the reputation of the authors. They have done a sloppy job with this book and I was extremely disappointed.
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Summary: Poorly written book
Review: This is one of the worst books ever written about database systems. The writing is unclear and poorly written. Examples are presented too complex for readers to clearly understand what is going on. It even refers to examples many pages back where you have to flip back and forth and gets repetitive. There is also no clear drawings or diagrams that help the reader understand what the author is trying to point out. Overall a very poor book and not worth the time spent in reading and figuring out what is going on.
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Summary: Jimmeny Cricket, this book is the bestest ever.
Review: Very nice writen for new learners while covers enough aspects to step further. Long because it is from the merging of another 2 books. Recommended as a handbook for new commers to database area.
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Summary: Very nice book if used as a textbook
Review: Very nice writen for new learners while covers enough aspects to step further. Long because it is from the merging of another 2 books. Recommended as a handbook for new commers to database area.
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