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Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.
Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems-with the practical magic of databases.
In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication.
Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequently used SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases.
(Of course, it wouldn't be a royal kingdom without some drama, so read on to find out who gets the girl-the arrogant prince or the humble servant.)
This EduManga book is a translation of a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan.
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Well worth a look if you know nothing about databases
An odd concept, but having heard about this book I had to have a look. Throughout the book more 'sober' sections enforce the preceding lesson and there are some questions to answer in order to check your understanding.
For someone with little or no knowledge of what a database is, or without any formal training (the so-called "accidental dba") this can be quite entertaining. It doesn't cover any area in a great deal of depth, but gives brief descriptions of most aspects. It certainly provides a starting point for further studying.
The sections of the book are:
1. What is a Database - The 'what' and 'why' of a database.
2. What is a Relational Database - Database Terms, Set and Relational Operations.
3. Let's Design a Database - E-R, Normailsation
4. Let's Learn About SQL - SQL terms and functions.
5. Let's Create a Database - Transactions, Locks, Checkpoints, Indexes, Optimising Queries.
6. Databases Are Everywhere - Distributed Databases, Stored Procedures and Triggers, Partitioning, Two-Phase Commit, Replication, OO Databases.
Quite enjoyable and informative.
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