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 | | Fundamentals of Database Systems (5th Edition) by Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe ISBN-10: 9780321369574 ISBN-10: 0-321-36957-2 ISBN-13: 9780321369574 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-36957-4 Paperback 2006-03-17 Addison Wesley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and an up-to-date introduction to modern database technologies result in a leading introduction to database systems. With fresh new problems and a new lab manual, students get more opportunities to practice the fundamentals of design and implementation. More real-world examples serve as engaging, practical illustrations of database concepts. The Fifth Edition maintains its coverage of the most popular database topics, including SQL, security, data mining, and contains a new chapter on web script programming for databases. | ||
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it could be so much more user friendly! Parts of this book, especially chapter 10 and 11, are written in nearly pure mathematical formulas with very limited explanation. The worst part is that many of those problems are fairly simply if you understand it. The algorithms that are the main part of chapter 11 could be explained in a much easier way. Instead of trying to decipher them yourself, which may take hours, speak to someone that knows the subject and you will be surprised how easy all this really is. I think the author decided that since this book is designed for Comp Science majors it must be written in an EXTREMELY concise way which made parts of it also extremely hard to understand. Too bad, because it really did not have to be that way. | ||
Great Resource! :) This is an excellent and thorough analysis of database processes involving transactions, concurrency control, security and covers relational tables, object-relational databases as well as object oriented technology. There is a thorough overview of UML as well as ER design tools. It is a tough read and covers a lot of material and is very theoretical but practical. Relational algebra and calculus are covered thoroughly. This is recommended for an advanced database course as it's coverage of SQL is coarse and cursory. Instead this book is intended more for a behind the scenes analysis of database technology. An excellent database course as a prerequisite for using this book would use Mannino's Database Design, Application, Development and Administration. Mannino's book has an excellent coverage of SQL and its applications. | ||
Good for School and database in general This is for someone who is very interested in database. maybe if you want to be a dba, system, or databasehouse analyst. Little bit old but very good. | ||
There are some scratches on the cover although I ordered a new book, There are some scratches on the cover, and it's looked like is not new | ||
I feel dumber now... This book is required for my database class; I wish it weren't. The sentence structure is absolutely atrocious. Whatever happened to publishers checking for complete sentences??? Because of the poor sentences, I loose focus and do other things (like write this review). Surprisingly, this is not the most frustrating part of the book. Why do I need flip hundreds of pages backward to learn a topic or do a problem? The authors rely on you spending more time flipping the pages of their book than actually reading it (this may be intentional since the writing itself is poor). If you don't have to get this book I wouldn't. Otherwise I feel sorry for you and wish you keep your sanity... | ||