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Title: A First Course in Database Systems (2nd Edition) by Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom, Jennifer D. Widom ISBN: 0130353000 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $73.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43
Rating: 4
Summary: Easy to understand, relevant - but so boring to read
Comment: This book is ok in many ways. The topics seems relevant for a deeper understanding of relational database design (academic). It's easy to understand. On the downside: The book doesn't use UML but E/R (which is a downside in my opinion). And finally - the book is quite boring to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mixed Review
Comment: When I saw that Jeffrey Ullman had a new Database text out I was excited, since my work focus has now moved into that area. I have read and learned from many of Ullman's books, such as the famous Dragon (compiler design) book, as well as the "White" (automata) book and his two texts on computer algorithms. These are classics and should be on the bookshelf of everyone who calls him/herself a computer scientist.
This book is, however, a little disappointing. Most of it is good, some of it very good. But I do find some flaws in it. One of the glaring flaws deals with the attempt to extend the relational model from sets to bags (basically, to allow for duplicate tuples in relations.) This is the best attempt I've seen at formalizing "bag theory", but it introduces problems (some minor, others very serious) that aren't mentioned in the text. This review is too short and not the right place to expound on these problems. Chris Date's database text goes into most of them in substantial detail.
In summary, this book is good, with many good examples. I find it very readable. But it is not as good as Chris Date's Intro to Database Systems for the serious database professional. Ullman's book is good for showing another perspective to Date's solid (but somewhat opinionated) treatment of relational database theory.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: I'm taking a Database class right now. I'm using this book as another reference besides the required textbook and found out that this book is very clear in explaining things. Worth every penny !
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Title: Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) by Bruce Eckel ISBN: 0131002872 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 06 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Database System Implementation by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom ISBN: 0130402648 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 11 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $83.00 |
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Title: Database Systems: The Complete Book by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom ISBN: 0130319953 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $87.00 |
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Title: Operating System Concepts, 6th Edition by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne, A Silberschatz ISBN: 0471417432 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $106.50 |
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Title: Concepts of Programming Languages (5th Edition) by Robert W. Sebesta ISBN: 0201752956 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $104.00 |
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