DataBase Systems
A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management (4th Edition) (International Computer Science)
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ISBN-10: 0-321-29401-7
ISBN-13: 9780321294012
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Year: June 20, 2004
Edition: 4
Size: 18.59 x 23.19 x 4.19cm
Number of pages: 1400
Weight: 2,059gr
Binding: Paperback
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Carolyn E. Begg, Thomas M. Connolly
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; 1998
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Carolyn E. Begg, Thomas M. Connolly, Anne D. Strachan
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; 1995
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This book places a strong emphasis on good design practice, allowing readers to master design methodology in an accessible, step-by-step fashion. In this book, database design methodology is explicitly divided into three phases: conceptual, logical, and physical. Each phase is described in a separate chapter with an example of the methodology working in practice. Extensive treatment of the Web as an emerging platform for database applications is covered alongside many code samples for accessing databases from the Web including JDBC, SQLJ, ASP, ISP, and Oracle's PSP. A thorough update of later chapters covering object-oriented databases, Web databases, XML, data warehousing, data mining is included in this new edition. A clear introduction to design implementation and management issues, as well as an extensive treatment of database languages and standards, make this book an indispensable, complete reference for database professionals.
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This text is relatively good book on database systems. In my opinion, it should not be the first book you read on the topic. Also, chapter organization could/should be done other way. Whatever the case, this text revolves around use of UML in database modeling, which is not my favorite tool for this time. I like ERDs and what's more foot-crow ERDs. So, I couldn't find any in this text. But, since authors say that UML is pretty much becoming a standard and many people would agree with them, I will keep my preference for crows-foot ERD to myslef. This text covers topics like: distributed systems, transaction management, and web technologies. These are not the easiest topics and reader should have some previous knowledge of databases before getting to this book.
This book was required by a course I am taking, so I can not buy another one, but I think it is a great book. It has also helps you learn a database language. I forgot what it is bec I did nt use it yet, but it very helpful.
I purchased this book for a Database Management Systems course and found it to be a very useful text-book. The concepts are easy to understand and the authors provide plenty of examples for better understanding. My only problem was that our course instructor used the same examples as the book in class and that got boring towards the end of the semester. However, overall I believe that the book is very useful and will definitely recommend it to friends.
It should be named »how to writing SQL for MS Access, Oracle 7i and xxx« since that is all about. It is weird to me why »Design« is in the title. There is absolutely nothing covered on what is inside a RMDB, man.
For two quarters now, I have had a one-chapter reading assignment out of this book for a total of 20 chapters. This book is nearly impossible to read. The only reason you would want a text this expansive is if you planned to write your own database system to compete with MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc …
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