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Designed for students learning databases for the first time, Database Systems: An Application Oriented Approach, Brief Version, Second Edition presents the principles underlying the design and implementation of databases and database applications. This version of the book is ideal for a one-semester course in databases and contains additional material that allows the instructor to enrich the course in various directions depending upon their preference.
The book consists of 12 core chapters plus additional chapters on transaction processing, software engineering issues, object-oriented databases and XML and Web Data. Chapters on using SQL in an application and software engineering recognize the growing importance of application development in building database systems.
The authors have also written a complete version that includse the core chapters, advanced topics, and extensive coverage of transaction processing. This title could be used in an introductory course, an advanced database course, a transaction processing course, and a course on electronic commerce. For more information and to view a complete Table of Contents, visit our catalog page at http://www.aw-bc.com/productpage?ISBN=0321268458
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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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