AnyBook4Less.com - ISBN: 061906269X - Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fifth Edition by Peter Rob

AnyBook4Less.com

Find the Best Price on the Web
Order from a Major Online Bookstore

Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us |

Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money

Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fifth Edition

Please fill out form in order to compare prices

Title: Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fifth Edition
by Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel
ISBN: 0-619-06269-X
Publisher: Course Technology
Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $92.95

Your Country
Currency
Delivery
Include Used Books
Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 3.61 (18 reviews)

Customer Reviews

Rating: 3
Summary: Comprehensive, but perhaps too much so
Comment: First let me just say I liked this book. Why? Because it is a pretty IT book with useful and informative color screenshots and illustrations that are explanatory. It is of course both fortunate and unfortunate that the author uses screenshots of MS Access databases almost exclusively.

I do wish the author had spent more time discussing web-database application integration. Also, he only used Coldfusion (the most expensive variety) to illustrate web-database interactivity. This is great for learning some basic Coldfusion tagging, but how about something useful for small-time web hosters and others who want to use PHP, which is not only free but more powerful than Coldfusion. Ah well.

This book is very large in height - you'll see what I mean when you pick it up. The sections on ER diagramming, SQL, normalization, and design are top notch. However when the book gets into the later chapters, and covers more difficult subjects such as distributed database apps, transactional databases and Internet-related topics the coverage becomes a little weak. He does give a fine overview of all the topics presented however and the book is not totally boring to read either. The author is very lucid.

I recommend this book as an introductory text on databases but nothing more.

Rating: 5
Summary: Best DB Design and DB Theory book on the market!!!!
Comment: This book is top notch...I've read many DB design books, but this one took the cake..When I took my database design class at my university, the professor was great, but the book was even BETTER!!!! I never knew about "normalizing data" until I saw this book and took the class!!! The theory, concepts, examples, and illustrations are 5-star quality!! I still use this book today, and its more than a year passed now, when I need to look up or refresh myself on a concept...Excellent learning tool, as well as a great reference for DB design....Only one problem, the book is "big" in size!!! Get it IF you can!!!

Rating: 5
Summary: Best book on database design
Comment: If you are taking a college level course in the fundamentals of database design and you are having a hard time understanding what your professor is talking about, then this textbook is a must. Your professor might cover the topics in a difference sequence, but you could very easily find your way around in this textbook. It covers all the basics of relational design (which is the topic most colleges teach) in an excellent manner. It is full of textual examples coupled with graphical representations. No need to get the latest edition. Even an older one would do. Have fun with databases.

Similar Books:

	Title: Oracle Essentials : Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 (2nd Edition) by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern ISBN: 0596001797 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95
	Title: New Perspectives on Microsoft Access 2002 - Comprehensive by Joseph J. Adamski ISBN: 061902089X Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 28 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $53.95
	Title: Oracle 9I: SQL With an Introduction to Pl/SQL by Lannes L., Ph.D. Morris-Murphy ISBN: 0619212845 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $64.95
	Title: Text Information Retrieval Systems by Charles Meadow, Bert Boyce, Donald Kraft ISBN: 0124874053 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $73.95
	Title: Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World, Second Edition by John W. Satzinger, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen D. Burd ISBN: 0619063092 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 25 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $92.95

Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!