Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management (5th Edition)

Correct description, acceptable delivery time. Worn with some smaller damages but without hindrance for practical use.

For school this was a great book. It was a required book and I thought it was going to get stuck in just teaching SQL or how to program in SQL. That was not the case. This teaches you how to think like a database admin, architect, user, .. etc. It covers all aspects you need to know about Databases and plus a little of the database languages out there. Yet its focus was to teach you how a and what a database and how to set one up and keep it functional.

A detailed instruction guide to designing databases, The authors give you and understanding of the main foundations and structure of of databases.It is a very nice read if you are interested in the structure and functions of relational database.

Book covers good material, but doesn't provide enough examples. I don't agree that it can be used as a reference since many online articles exist out there that cover the same topics.

This book was a required textbook for a graduate database class I was taking. Having spent the last 20 years in industry working with various database systems, this class was mostly review, and the textbook was needed to do assignments.I find the book to be a poor reference, and not worth owning. One of the things the instructor liked about the book was the extensive case study type problems. This was obviously due to the disconnect between the fantasy world of academia and the reality of industry. I found the case study problems to be poorly contrived and artificial, and at times stupid and needlessly ambiguous. Confusing matters further at times was the difference between the authors use of British terms, phrases, and concepts in the problem descriptions with no explanation or disambiguation. Overall organization of the book is also odd, which left our instructor skipping backward and forward through chapters out of order and at times presenting two chapters simultaneously.The book is huge and most of it is not worth reading, which makes it even more of a pain to have to lug it around for the few bits that you do need for class. It seems to be a favorite of professors, which is probably why it is in its 5th edition, but that doesn't mean it is any good.

It has a great section on SQL code and other basic and advanced information. I am using it as a textbook for my one class.

The book was pretty easy to read through. The class was boring as heck though. Its a recommended book for people actually interested in working with databases.

A very good book for conceptual courses. Goes over DB concepts heavily such as normalization, UML mapping, entity-relationship mapping. However, I found it to be way too long and lacking in real world DBA/DB architect information. All in all, a great book to introduce new students to the "concepts and ideas" of databases but don't expect to gain any practical knowledge that can be used in the field.

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世界中の大学のコンピュータサイエンス学科の講義で、「データベースシステム概論」の定番テキストとして長年にわたって活用され続けている名著です。ロングセラーとなっている理由は、「不動産業における不動産物件のデータベース管理システムの設計・実装と運用管理」という極めて身近なシステム要求事例に基づいて、集合理論・実体関連モデル (ERモデル)・データの正規化・三層スキーマ構造・分散データベース設計・オブジェクト指向データベース設計といったデータベース設計の基本原理から、ハードウェア（データベースサーバ・WEBサーバ）とデータベース管理システム（Oracle DB・Postgres）を使った実装とSQL言語による運用管理に至るまで、関係データベースシステムの構築作業のすべてを明快に解説してくれている点にあると強く感じます。著者はITベンダー企業からスコットランドの大学の研究者に転身した先生とあって、すべてのトピックを日常のビジネス生活における要求事例のみに基づいて検証し解説してくれているところに、徹底したイギリス経験論の流れを感じる本です。他のデータベースシステム関係の本においては「関係データベースの原理についての単なる用語解説やSQL言語のコマンド操作方法の単なるマニュアル集に終始してしまい、データベースシステムが実際のシステム要求に応えるためににどのような原理に基づいて設計され実装されて動いているのかという肝心な点が全く見えない。」といった内容のものが数多く見受けられますが、この本はそういった類のデータベース用語集的テキストとは一線を画しています。本書のタイトルがそのまま示している通り、「設計、実装、運用管理への実用的アプローチにもとづくデータベースシステム概論」です。かつて自動車製造系の関係データベースの立ち上げプロジェクトの仕事をしていた時に、この本の第２版から学んだ実体関連モデル (ERモデル)とSQL問い合わせについての知識スキルが、問い合わせたデータの出力結果の不整合という実課題の検証とデバッグ作業にその場で役立てることができたので非常に感謝しています。時代を経て版を重ねても、データベースを使って仕事をするエンジニア必携の基本書であり続けると思います。

Great book and arrived on time. This book was actually on my university courses reading list so a great first book for a beginner to get to grips with the main concepts

Excellent product!!

I have this as an accompaniment to my postgraduate studies in BI and Data Mining. It has been very useful. So useful that I have used it in my job which is rare for a textbook recommended by a university course.