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Title: Foundations of Databases by Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu, Shahsa ISBN: 0-201-53771-0 Publisher: Pearson Education POD Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: my favourite book about database theory
Comment: Whenever I need to check or find some result about database theory,
I look into Foundations of Databases, and I find the answer, stated
and explained in a clear and understandable way. This book
contains all you need about foundations of databases, and even more ...

Rating: 5
Summary: My second database Book
Comment: Here is the book to grow up from intro. It is definetely harder to read than Date, but - as it is always with math - the extra effort is rewarding.

There are some omissions, for example, 5NF is not covered. (While lower normal forms are more important from practical side, the higher ones are more interesting from math perspective). On the positive note, coverage of Extended Relational Model is much more open-minded as compared to C.Date, for example (BTW, Abiteboul's paper on object views is among the most cited).

Rating: 4
Summary: A good theory book but meaningless for engineers
Comment: It is a good DB theory book for professors and students. It covers most topics in data models and database theories. But it is not suitable to be a textbook, and should be avoided by IT engineers in industry. The book is hard to read. There are too many maths elements in it. Compared with the discontinued book by Ullman, its English is not good, maybe because the first author is French.

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