What do you think?
Rate this book
Database Processing
Get straight to the point of database processing.
Database Processing reflects a new teaching method that gets readers straight to the point with its thorough and modern presentation of database processing fundamentals.
The twelfth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest software.
640 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1983
10 people are currently reading
138 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 14 of 14 reviews
March 4, 2023
Avoid this book.
As someone with industry experience supporting databases with millions of daily users and half a million concurrent users, I've dealt with many systems. I'm aware of how to normalize DBs, the pitfalls of building DBs in given ways, and how to administer, develop, and support these databases. I've read many DB books and took a course for my master's, requiring this book. It disappointed. I'm not saying the book is entirely worthless (thus, it did not receive a 1-star rating), but the overall approach to it is entirely over-engineered. Basic concepts are exploded into difficult and poorly communicated industry problems, which could only lead someone newer to databases to believe this is an impossibly challenging concept. Find yourself a different book if you are new to databases, one that adequately explains normalization focuses on SQL queries, and touches more on NoSQL but doesn't take 600 pages to write what could be communicated in 200 pages or less.
As with many books in the industry, it also didn't age well. The book is over a decade old, and it clearly shows. When did we last see MS Access at any firm besides a non-tech-based startup? How many folks still use SQL Server 2012 for new development? I've made my point by now. If you want a SQL Server-specific book, pick up the now-defunct Exam Refs for SQL Server 2017, such as Exam Ref 70-761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL or Exam Ref 70-762: Developing SQL Databases. There are more in this series, but they will certainly be more approachable and applicable than this book.
If you read this book and are disheartened or feel like development or databases are not for you, then you're wrong. This book makes you feel confused and, at times, stupid as you try and read through the drivel and drudgery written in it.
As someone with industry experience supporting databases with millions of daily users and half a million concurrent users, I've dealt with many systems. I'm aware of how to normalize DBs, the pitfalls of building DBs in given ways, and how to administer, develop, and support these databases. I've read many DB books and took a course for my master's, requiring this book. It disappointed. I'm not saying the book is entirely worthless (thus, it did not receive a 1-star rating), but the overall approach to it is entirely over-engineered. Basic concepts are exploded into difficult and poorly communicated industry problems, which could only lead someone newer to databases to believe this is an impossibly challenging concept. Find yourself a different book if you are new to databases, one that adequately explains normalization focuses on SQL queries, and touches more on NoSQL but doesn't take 600 pages to write what could be communicated in 200 pages or less.
As with many books in the industry, it also didn't age well. The book is over a decade old, and it clearly shows. When did we last see MS Access at any firm besides a non-tech-based startup? How many folks still use SQL Server 2012 for new development? I've made my point by now. If you want a SQL Server-specific book, pick up the now-defunct Exam Refs for SQL Server 2017, such as Exam Ref 70-761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL or Exam Ref 70-762: Developing SQL Databases. There are more in this series, but they will certainly be more approachable and applicable than this book.
If you read this book and are disheartened or feel like development or databases are not for you, then you're wrong. This book makes you feel confused and, at times, stupid as you try and read through the drivel and drudgery written in it.
December 17, 2023
Omg, this book was too verbose. It was likely a groundbreaking book when it first came out but was just amended without much thought to brevity. It has all the information you need to get started (it's very detail-oriented), but do you want to trudge through all that? Have chapters with the essentials with a referenced extension if interested? I worked as a Senior Data Analyst and had trouble reading this book. Concise is best, neophyte human minds have limited buffers.
February 23, 2020
This book is a good read of you like spending an hour trying to get though one chapter that can be explained in 5 min. It has unnecessary verbiage and very ambiguous explanations. It doesn't really make being a database admin very interesting.
May 27, 2019
Good book although my instructor for this class in college was very tough....:D
February 28, 2017
amazing!!!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 30, 2007
Mind numbing. If you ever wanted a reason to not become a computer programmer or Database Administrator, this is the book you should read. It overly complicates the issues by relating simple concepts into high math and unconventional terminology. I'm reading it because I want to have new ways of discussing programming techniques that no one else in the world understands except robots and time traveling math teachers. Rest assured, I intend to complete it and get an A+ in the course. Afterwards I'll be placing my head in a bucket of ice water in order to detox from all the terminology.
May 26, 2009
This was the required textbook for an intro to DB class. I've worked with DBs, learned what I learned on my own, and this was my first real DB class. The book's pretty good. I thought it was very clear and it emphasized a few things that I've been doing but didn't know exactly why... I just knew it's the way it is cause if I didn't do it that way the DB will not work :)
I still have the book. It's a great when I need to look up a term so that I can speak intelligently with the actual DB folks in IS :)
I still have the book. It's a great when I need to look up a term so that I can speak intelligently with the actual DB folks in IS :)
January 7, 2016
This was the text for a basic course in relational database design and SQL. The authors provided some great examples from the domain of product sales, though it would have been more relevant to me with some examples from health care. Additionally, I really appreciated the chapters on NoSQL and post-relational database models.
Read
May 2, 2011grad class text - no review or rating
July 21, 2012
Really helpful overall. Sometimes he does not fully explain every aspect of what students should know.
February 21, 2015
to my tugas akhir
January 10, 2019
Covers all the fundamental concepts of database theory. Also includes a good section on NoSQL databases and modern developments in the field toward the end.
April 17, 2008
Good for beginners.
Displaying 1 - 14 of 14 reviews