This new international version of Database Systems maintains its engaging writing style and brevity, its unique balance between theory and practice and its wealth of examples throughout the text, inspiring student-friendly learning at its best. This new international version includes new chapters on Relational Algebra and Physical Database Design, and UML modelling notation. It has been updated with all the latest developments and technologies and incorporates a generous number of localised and motivating business vignettes that tie the concepts to real-life situations.
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"A lucid and well-structured book covering all the necessary basics in database theory." -- Professor Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
"An extremely accessible text which achieves both deep and broad coverage." -- Dr Thomas Chesney, Nottingham University Business School
"This is an excellent introductory book for Database Systems. The students will find it clear and easy to digest as it provides many useful examples, and many exercises which will help to reinforce learning. The adaptation from the Amercian version has certainly enhanced its contents." -- Dr Beatriz Iglesia, University of East Anglia
"An extremely accessible text which achieves both deep and broad coverage." -- Dr Thomas Chesney, Nottingham University Business School
"This is an excellent introductory book for Database Systems. The students will find it clear and easy to digest as it provides many useful examples, and many exercises which will help to reinforce learning. The adaptation from the Amercian version has certainly enhanced its contents." -- Dr Beatriz Iglesia, University of East Anglia
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book as it was recommended for my second year Computing course on Databases. It is very easy to read and explains the topics easily especially relational algebra. There are also lots of examples and exercises at the end. A nice addition is the CD included which contains some of the answers. The book also has a chapter on SQL where the examples are in ORACLE 10g - this has been useful extra to the labs that we do at University. The book uses newer UML class diagrams to design relational databases rather than crows foot ERD's which we were taught briefly in the first year. This is making it easier to see how database design can fit into the whole system design. Overall I am very happy with this purchase.
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By Davinder
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I bought this book for one of my modules at Uni and its helped a lot, I'm able to refer to the books for certain diagrams, definitions and also tips on how to tackle certain problems.
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This will help anyone who uses database or is doing a course on database or a web course. It explains the ins and outs of MYSQL and has been extremely useful.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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For someone trying to learn database modelling and design concepts this book is utterly useless. Yes, it tries to be informative but there are a lot (and I do mean A LOT) of the examples in the book that contain mistakes or errors in table examples and the text referring to said examples. On a number of occasions I've found myself looking at a table example, reading the associated text and scratching my head because it just doesn't make sense. Then the penny drops, oh yes, you meant CLASS_CODE not CLASS_SECTION - silly me!! A small error, but their example table contains both attributes and the text is referring the wrong one it makes it pretty difficult to get your head round the relatively simple concept of strong/weak relationships. Then a couple of pages later, hmmm more errors! There is a reason that this book only has one good review - avoid it all costs, unless you want to keep cross referencing everything on Google.
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By Rochel
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Low rating as I was forced to buy this as a core book for my unit to create an SQL system. It is not a book for beginners. You must at least know the basics of computing before trying to understand how to create the database. I found it difficult to use and follow. The product was also very expensive for a student. Although I found the contents hard to understand the quality of the book when arrived was in excellent condition and it came on time.
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