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Inside Relational Databases With Examples In Access
Database books currently tend to fall into two categories: highly theoretical and detailed textbooks and manuals which teach how to use the software but not the underlying theory. Neither type of book explains why the reader would want to do many of the things they describe. Marklyn and Whitehorn cover essential relational database theory and explain how to build databases securely - without bogging them down into too much detail and endless formulae. They start by explaining interface components and letting you build working databases. Along the way the authors guide you through potential disasters and provide the techniques to avoid them. Inside Relational Databases is aimed at equipping students with the necessary skills to build practical databases in the 'real world' as well as ensuring that they have a sufficient theoretical grounding in the subject.
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First published January 1, 1998
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October 17, 2018
Read this for a university course in databases.
For what it is, its a good book. And I understand how this must be a near impossible book to write. Explain ER-diagrams with words. Explain normalization with words. Explain SQL with words. Not an easy task indeed. Hard enough for some of us to understand with a teacher and practical examples. So in that way they do a very good job in this book. I know more then before after reading it, I would not have understood it without help from the teacher, but this book did help. Also, I dont understand computer stuff easily. So for a third time, its a good book for what it is.
But its so booooooring.... I do not matter how many jokes you try to push in there, its still booooring.
And one last thing. Please dont tell me that this is so easy, "see, easy!" I do not help me as a reader, a reader that have not understood what you are talking about, that the thing is easy. Either you are dicks or I am stupid, I would not like any of the answers, but I dont think you are dicks. Rather write: "when you get it, it will be easy". Because thats how it is with most things, when you understand, it is easy. Please give me hope rather then tell me Im an idiot. Please...
For what it is, its a good book. And I understand how this must be a near impossible book to write. Explain ER-diagrams with words. Explain normalization with words. Explain SQL with words. Not an easy task indeed. Hard enough for some of us to understand with a teacher and practical examples. So in that way they do a very good job in this book. I know more then before after reading it, I would not have understood it without help from the teacher, but this book did help. Also, I dont understand computer stuff easily. So for a third time, its a good book for what it is.
But its so booooooring.... I do not matter how many jokes you try to push in there, its still booooring.
And one last thing. Please dont tell me that this is so easy, "see, easy!" I do not help me as a reader, a reader that have not understood what you are talking about, that the thing is easy. Either you are dicks or I am stupid, I would not like any of the answers, but I dont think you are dicks. Rather write: "when you get it, it will be easy". Because thats how it is with most things, when you understand, it is easy. Please give me hope rather then tell me Im an idiot. Please...
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