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For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior, and graduate levels in Computer Science departments.
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Written by well-known computer scientists, this accessible and succinct introduction to database systems focuses on database design and use. The authors provide in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer, leaving implementation for later courses. It is the first database systems text to cover such topics as UML, algorithms for manipulating dependencies in relations, extended relational algebra, PHP, 3-tier architectures, data cubes, XML, XPATH, XQuery, XSLT.
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- Access Student and Instructor Resources at www.prenhall.com/ullman
- Author Website (Open Access) ¿http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb.html
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Much of the material I could not use - it was too modern for the course I was teaching. I was teaching a database course where the relational model dominates. In this book, the starting point is the object model and database modelling with OODL. However, most of the book talks about the relational model. initially it talks about how to convert object-oriented designs into relational designs. I particularly liked the example database designs, some of which I adapted for the course I was to teach. In particular there was a beer database and also a movies database - these, I thought would appeal to most students.
There are a number of course sites at Stanford University. Here they make full use of the book. In addition you can obtain course-notes and slides that follow the material in the book. This book is a must for your library if you have any significant interest in database.
This book is, however, a little disappointing. Most of it is good, some of it very good. But I do find some flaws in it. One of the glaring flaws deals with the attempt to extend the relational model from sets to bags (basically, to allow for duplicate tuples in relations.) This is the best attempt I've seen at formalizing "bag theory", but it introduces problems (some minor, others very serious) that aren't mentioned in the text. This review is too short and not the right place to expound on these problems. Chris Date's database text goes into most of them in substantial detail.
In summary, this book is good, with many good examples. I find it very readable. But it is not as good as Chris Date's Intro to Database Systems for the serious database professional. Ullman's book is good for showing another perspective to Date's solid (but somewhat opinionated) treatment of relational database theory.
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