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| Database Systems: An Application-Oriented Approach, Introductory Version (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
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Edition: 2
Author: Michael Kifer, Arthur Bernstein, Philip M. Lewis
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Release Date: 2004-04-09
ISBN-10: 0321228383
ISBN-13: 9780321228383
List Price: $95.60
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This book presents the conceptual principles underlying the design and implementation of databases and their applications by providing a solid foundation of the theory underlying database systems. This book takes an applications-oriented approach to database concepts and covers topics including; ER Modeling, UML, XML, object-oriented databases, SQL, database tuning, and the important software issues that arise when implementing database applications. This book is appropriate for programmers who want to understand database system concepts and how they apply to real-world databases.
Boring and Dry
| Customer Rating: | | Database Systems is probably the dullest subject I have encountered in Computer Science, and this book tends to exacerbate the problem. The authors fails to craft good examples, and if you are not already familiar with databases, you will be left behind by the authors' assumptions of your knowledge... |
Waste of Money
| Customer Rating: | | While taking a databases course at college I found online documentation and tutorials to be more helpful and understandable. Very few examples and the examples given were impossible to follow. This book is more mathematical theory than anything else. Not recommended under any circumstances for anything more than a bonfire |
The best DB Book I've used
| Customer Rating: | | I used this book during an Undergraduate DB course in college. It single-handedly made my A possible (the professor wasn't great). I recommend this book for its superior organization and real-world examples. |
Unreadable
| Customer Rating: | This may be one of the worst textbooks I have ever used. I have three specific complaints, any one of which would kill the book for me:
1. It defines the math and theory beneath relational databases, which is good. But it just leaves it at that. It would help greatly if an English explaination accompanied the definitions. For example, their definitions of the normal forms. Just about every other book and web site author seems to be able to come up with an understandable natural language description but not these guys. They just throw the math onto the wall and see what sticks.
2. Not enough examples. Don't just say something is so; show me how it is so.
3. The examples that do exist are pathetic. Not only are they oversimplified compared to the practice problems, they're physically impossible to follow. Here's an example from Chapter 6, Section 6.5.2, Page 208: "consider ... defined by the CREATE TABLE statement (4.1), page 87, and the schema ... defined by the SQL Statement (6.3), page 197. As discussed earlier ... represented by the FDs in (6.5), page 199." To follow just this one example, you have to simultaneously refer to 4 pages, spread over more than 100 pages. Good luck. Whoever edited this mess - or didn't - should be ashamed of themselves.
This book may be an ok reference for people who already know the stuff, but God help you if you are trying to learn from it. The instructor's slides are significantly better, but I would still give them no better than a B.
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Not a good buy
| Customer Rating: | I bought this book for my database course. This book is very dry and boring. Not organzied i.e The author continuously refers to figures that are yet to come (on the next few pages) or figures from chapters ago! This is distracting when reading the book. If you buy this book, hope you have extra time to spend flipping back and forth to view the referenced figures.
There are no answers to the excercises in the book..So dont count that helping you understand the ideas presented.
But there are examples to explain key points but no follow through on explaining why the answer is what it is.
I do not recommend this book. |
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