Principles of Database Management: The Practical Guide to Storing, Managing and Analyzing Big and Small Data

I teach advanced database management in a bachelors program, and this is the textbook I switched to. Big improvement. Simple and consistent vocabulary. Principles are taught line-by-line. I highly recommend this book.

Great book, course material and more ...Kudos to a fine team of experts !

I acquired this book to have a single reference to such a vast field as data management and it fulfills the promise: - Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, from legacy databases until the latest Big Data technology - Brings clarity to the scope of many trades of Data like governance, reference and master data management, metadata management, quality, governance, etc - Touches topics of crucial relevance for many companies like data integration (including data virtualization, which is not so well known even from some data professionals), and data access (including APIs landscape) - Demystifies the "poudre de perlimpinpin" from Big Data - And helped me to discover a language I didn't know: West-Flemish!As the topic is a fast moving target, there will be vast opportunities to expand this book in future versions. Some additional topics that could be considered are: - An expansion on the topic of data integration, in the context of data architecture, going more in the details of different architectural choices depending on business needs (for instance, I would expect here a reference to the so called lambda and kappa architectures) - The role of message brokers like Kafka could be expanded (linked to the previous point) - Introduce the concept of Enterprise Information Model (which should be the driving force for all conceptual database models) - Some major trends in analytics like deep learning (neural networks are briefly mentioned but no word about the game changer in course with this technique and the sustainability of keeping like that) and AutoML - Introduce the topic of Analytics Governance (not to be confused with Data Governance ;-) )Nevertheless, this is a big space in continuous expansion and this book performs an excellent job of capturing it!

It explains a lot, recommended

A great read on modern database management. Really impressive. I'm enjoying it.However, I'm giving it a four out of five because it doesn't include any answers to any of the Review Questions at the end of each chapter. I went to the publisher's webpage for the book, and the solutions to the Review Questions are locked for special access for instructor's only.The problem is that the publisher is assuming that instructors are going to use the Review Questions as part of in-class quizzes and tests. I've been in education my whole life - first as an instructor and now as a student, and the reality is that instructors in IT-related subjects almost never use Review Questions at the end of chapters as quiz or test content that's actually graded. For example, our class is graded based solely on assignments, and projects. We're simply using this book for the content - not the 10-15 Review Questions that are at the end of each chapter.The questions should be intended for exactly what the name suggests - REVIEW QUESTIONS. So, some answers would be great.Now I have to hassle my instructor to sign up for the Solutions PDF. Annoying and stupid. Surely the publisher's fault.