Customer Reviews

Modern Database Management (6th Edition)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I bought this book for a DBMS course in a university and I liked it. This is the best written book compared to any IT book on any subject I've read. Everything seems so easy and simple with this. And this covers a lot of ground, enough at least for any basic level DBMS course. It covers the basics, SQL, (E)ER-diagrams, O-O db's, warehousing, etc.

What this is NOT: this is not a hands-on guide for real work. This is the first introduction to what you should know before beginning any DB-related work.

Good up-to-date introductory text on Database Systems. It covers all the bases although in a less quantative way than the Elmasri/Navathe or Ramakrishnan/Gehrke texts. Excellent web based support material. Also, if you get the Oracle Edition (ISBN 0201383721) you'll get 3 great CD's: Oracle Designer/2000, Rel. 2.1; Oracle Developer/2000, Rel. 2.1, and Personal Oracle 7, Rel. 7.3.4. I found this package of text and CD's to be the best value on the market.

I bought this book for my database class and I found this book to be very useful. If this is your area of study, I would suggest keeping the book as a reference guide. I regret selling mine to a friend, as there were plenty of times where I thought I could refer back to it in other courses and projects.

I used this book in graduate school while taking the Database Management System course. The book has usefull information. It help me understand and practice normalization. Some unfamiliar concepts also were learnt from the book. I can recommend this book to anyone getting into the database world.

Indeed, a brilliant rendition of practical information. I am currently working as a chief technical designer in a financial data warehouse project for a fortune 100 company. Chapter 11 (Data Warehousing) unfolded some time-critical points.

This book not only teaches Database Theories, it also keeps up with the lastest IT happenings that involves databases.

The DataWarehouse chapter is one article that i've not seen in other database textbooks

I was introducted to this book as a student in Information Technology at DeVry. While this book will not help you become a Oracle DBA, it does provides a solid foundation in the theories surrounding relational DMBS. With this book accompanied by some PL / SQL books such as Oracle PL / SQL (ISBN: 1-56592-335-9) I think these would be great combinations.

I loved, loved, loved this text. I wasn't really thrilled with having to take a database management class but I couldn't have enjoyed this text more. It was clear and thorough with great examples. It is a great foundation book for someone wanting to get their feet wet in database management and all that entails.

Overall quality very poor...Just went through all topics of RDBMS but didn't explain properly...Difficult to understand and not good as an introductory book..

When I first started reading this book, I almost cried at how dry and boring it was. However, I finally got over that and was able to stay awake long enough to keep up with the readings for my class. Overall, this text book offers a lot of information on database management - from conceptual modeling to SQL DDL and DML to physical schema considerations and data warehousing. I think it is a great intro text for anyone getting into the DBA game. The section on SQL was more in-depth than I thought it would be and even gets into co-related nested queries and working with some useful functions.