- Hardcover: 936 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 3 edition (1 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071151109
- ISBN-13: 978-0071151108
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.6 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 875,600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the fundamentals of database systems. This text has rapidly become one of the leading texts in the field due to its coherent explanations and practical flavor.
The new edition has been reorganized to allow more flexibility in the way the course is taught. Now, instructors can easily choose whether they would like to teach a course that emphasizes database application development or a course that emphasizes database systems issues.
More applications and examples have been added throughout the book. These include more SQL examples and more Oracle examples. There will also be two new chapters on internet applications. Database Management Systems is accompanied by an extensive website. Among other things, it includes PowerPoints, Solutions, additional Oracle exercises, and minibase software.
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Emphasis on the physical aspects of databases, including a chapter entitled "Physical Database Design and Tuning."
An extensively updated website is new to this edition. It includes:
Manuals for Oracle, MS, and DB2 that explain how to set up servers.
New instructor's guide with chapter summaries and tips.
SQL Exercises allow students to create sample databases and put solutions online.
A chapter on QBE chapter and Case Study are available on-line.
Lecture slides
Full solutions-odds for students and a complete set for instructors.
Two new applications chapters have been added. They include a discussion of application development using a DBMS and a discussion of building internet applications that includes material on HTML, XML, Javascript and XSL.
Flexible Organization: The new organization makes it possible to teach an introductory application-oriented course or introductory systems-oriented course. Instructors can easily select a suitable set of overview chapters that allow other chapters in the part to be skipped.
More applications and examples have been added throughout the book to help make the material more relevant to students.
The book has been updated to reflect the SQL:1999 standard.
Pedagogy has been improved with the addition of chapter objectives, review questions, boxes about system-specfic information, and improved layout and figures.
A case study runs throughout the book where appropriate showing students how to apply what the concepts they are learning.
An extensively updated website is new to this edition. It includes:
Manuals for Oracle, MS, and DB2 that explain how to set up servers.
New instructor's guide with chapter summaries and tips.
SQL Exercises allow students to create sample databases and put solutions online.
A chapter on QBE chapter and Case Study are available on-line.
Lecture slides
Full solutions-odds for students and a complete set for instructors.
Two new applications chapters have been added. They include a discussion of application development using a DBMS and a discussion of building internet applications that includes material on HTML, XML, Javascript and XSL.
Flexible Organization: The new organization makes it possible to teach an introductory application-oriented course or introductory systems-oriented course. Instructors can easily select a suitable set of overview chapters that allow other chapters in the part to be skipped.
More applications and examples have been added throughout the book to help make the material more relevant to students.
The book has been updated to reflect the SQL:1999 standard.
Pedagogy has been improved with the addition of chapter objectives, review questions, boxes about system-specfic information, and improved layout and figures.
A case study runs throughout the book where appropriate showing students how to apply what the concepts they are learning.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book really covers all the fundamentals topics of database management systems. It first explains how databases are used by introducing the entity-relational model, relational algebra and SQL programming and then describes how databases are constructed. Topics like memory management, indexing for DBMS, query processing and optimization, transactions, distributed databases are covered in depth.
Moreover, this books comes with a huge library of very interesting exercises.
A reference for anyone taking a database course.
Moreover, this books comes with a huge library of very interesting exercises.
A reference for anyone taking a database course.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Unfortunalty i'm no database expert but i hope i soon will be a little better. This book covers the important things you need to know about databases in alot less text than other books available. In short it seems to be relatively consise in database terms :) from what i have read so far anyway. All the key topics are covered and its a good book for someone studying a single module in databases on an academic course. For someone studying databases in far more depth i'm sure there are far more comprehensive books available.
Phill
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
A confusing and time-wasting book
24 April 2005
Format:Hardcover
To database developers, administrators or curious students, with love:
It is very unfortunate that destiny had me suffer the tremendous pain and frustration in reading the 3rd edition of "Database Management Systems", by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke, to learn the fundamentals of DBMS, for the contents of the book lack preciseness and clarity, thus, leading to a lot of confusion and ambiguity in the mind of the reader, who is learning databases for the first time (and is presumably an experienced programmer).
Authors of the book have badly failed in properly covering the topics based on clear and formal definitions of fundamental database concepts. Many topics were not dealth with by the authors comprehensively and lack focus too. The book is full of hundreds of lines of explanation that require another expanation. It is true that this book is more like a puzzle for you to put together in order to make heads or tails of what the topic really is all about.
This book seems appealing, however, to the instructors, for the authors have provided them with supplementary material that mainly includes lecture slides, complete solutions to problems in the book, and some examination papers.
In summary and conclusion, the 3rd edition of "Database Management Systems", by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke, sucks and is it not worth your time or money. This conclusion higly propabilistically holds for all previous editions of the book. A strongly recommended alternative is "Fundamentals of Database Systems" by Elmasri and Navathe.
Oh, and by the way, those quotes (all of which I bothered to read) that the authors have selected to start each chapter of the book with are really silly, irrelevant and meaningless.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
please get another book that is much cheaper and better
28 Oct 2004
Format:Hardcover
I feel like reading puzzle while reading this book. If this is a book for advanced user, why my professor use it in the database introduction course ?
a lot typo in the text and many exercise answers are incorrect. countless sentences in the book just hard to read. don't waste your time and $100 on this book!!
a lot typo in the text and many exercise answers are incorrect. countless sentences in the book just hard to read. don't waste your time and $100 on this book!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive and Practical
6 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm a "practitioner", not a student. I've worked as a DBA and a developer and have some graduate education in Computer Science, so maybe I'm not in the target audience. I never formally studied databases and I bought this book because I was considering taking a course for which this was the textook. I just read the book, instead. Cover to cover.
I think this is a fantastic book for self study. I've seen a lot of textbooks but I have never seen one that explains the internals of a database management system so well. It also explains DBMS's from the point of view of an application developer. The book is light on theory but not patronizing. The most important aspects of normalization theory are actually explained very well. There are also good survey chapters on many research topics like Spatial Databases and Object/Relational Databases.
Most things are explained very well and I found the book quite readable.
I think this is a fantastic book for self study. I've seen a lot of textbooks but I have never seen one that explains the internals of a database management system so well. It also explains DBMS's from the point of view of an application developer. The book is light on theory but not patronizing. The most important aspects of normalization theory are actually explained very well. There are also good survey chapters on many research topics like Spatial Databases and Object/Relational Databases.
Most things are explained very well and I found the book quite readable.
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