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Foundations of Databases: The Logical Level

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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 ...

The aliased named 'Alice Book' is still the gold standard in database design. However it is not an easy read; some database background is required to understand content and is useful mostly only as a reference. It would help if a more updated version of this text was available; however as is it is still very relevant (especially in consideration of the fact that nothing much has changed in database technology in the past 30 years or so...)

I googled "The Alice Book, databases", and nothing came out, so I'm fixing mostly this part in my review.

In a word, if you are a DBA, you don't need this book and won't be able to understand 99% of it, but if you are database theoretician, this book is on your bookshelf already.

This book quite complete review of relational database science as of 1995. In many cases, when studying particular subject I get away with original research papers available at citeseer and elsewhere, but often I find that it's much quicker just to open the Alice book at the right place.

This is THE book for database foundations and theory. Anyone serious on the subject already has a copy. Get your's and get serious about one of the most important areas of modern life.

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.