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Continuing in the eighth edition, An Introduction to Database Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to the now very large field of database systems by providing a solid grounding in the foundations of database technology while shedding some light on how the field is likely to develop in the future. This new edition has been rewritten and expanded to stay current wi
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Paperback, 1024 pages
Published
August 1st 2003
by Pearson
(first published June 1975)
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Just THE most important book about databases and especially Reational databases. If you need to know anything about the subject its here.
I was lucky enough also to meet CJ Date and he is a very knowlegable and friendly person who well deserves the admiration of his readers.
I was lucky enough also to meet CJ Date and he is a very knowlegable and friendly person who well deserves the admiration of his readers.
Date's seminal work is critical to understanding databases - a step mostly forgotten by those who believe every concept can be taught using commercial products with brain-dead examples in under 24 hours. Date teaches the logic and theory that underlie all successful practice. You can probably buy a different book and create a mock database faster, but you will neither understand nor be able to use it well. Do yourself a favor and read this first to understand what a database is; only then can yo
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A rigorous, highly opinionated overview of database theory and some practice. Transaction management is only lightly covered but the sections on relational algebra/calculus and normalization make up for it.
The seminal first year text on database structures and systems. This one influenced me quite a lot.
Definitely comprehensive. I find it an amusing indictment of the industry (though not of this book) that SQL doesn't implement the relational model, and the relational DBMSs don't implement standard SQL.
This book is very comprehensive and theoretical description of relational databases, but this is it's bad side. High theoretical level and lack of real-world examples can't make it, for example, be recommended as an introduction as said in it's title
This was a text I used in my college DB course - had to use it for review again recently - it's been a decent go-to book for a DB refresher.
Классическая книга по базам данным. Ничего принципиально нового, зато старое отлично раскладывается по полочкам.
Introduction to Database Systems, An (8th Edition) (Introduction to Database Systems) by C.J. Date (2003)
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Christopher J. Date (born 1941) is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database theory.
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