Customer Reviews

Principles of Database Systems With Internet and Java Applications

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The book is so heavy on words that it is hard to follow. The author started with ER Diagrams (he made it very complicated when it is not that hard) and then jumped into SQL. Needs more SQL and less ER Diagrams. Then he went into Hard Drive and memory, which is not necessary. This books should be base on Databases and Java, therefore it is poor on this issue. I believe there is another book out there, which can be better.

I took this course from Dr. Riccardi himself at FSU. To be fair, the book was still in the development stage when I had his class. However, I found that the examples in the book never quite communicated the idea he was attempting to communicate. The examples were not simple enough, and very often showed multiple concepts which tended to take away from the effectiveness of the example.

The book is also a bit confusing. There are a lot of terms that have been carefully defined, however, similar sounding terms have a completely different connotation.

Although Java is not a stated prerequisite to this course, I would recommend having Java either before taking the class or during the same semester. Later in the book there are some assignments in Java. The author expected the class to be comfortable with reading and modifying Java source code.

I used this book while I was attending a class in database systems. After some 100-150 pages I simply stopped reading it. The author is to much into using academic mombo-jombo talk, that just trying to understand one simple line sometimes seems impossible. After some time the lessons got to the point in the book where I had given up and after the teacher explained it, I was thinking "Was that it?". The author needs to realise that it is a LEARNING book he is trying to write, not a "look, im smarter than you" book. I'd pretty much recomend ANYTHING other than this book....its useless in my opinion.

The book relies heavily on explaining concepts through the examples outlined. So heavily, in fact, that trying to understand a single concept is almost impossible without reading the book as a whole.
To use it, you kind of have to read it cover to cover--novel style. This is rarely a useful way to approach technical learning, and other books do much better with alternate approaches.

This book was purchased for a class, but the teacher never had us even turn to page 1. Therefore, I'm only giving it three stars because I honestly don't know if it's a good or bad book.

This book goes too much in detail about using an Access Database with Java. Who does that in the real world?

Doesn't use a good real world example, and explanations are not very clear.

This book does a wonderful job explaining database systems using Java. I have read many books on the subject and this is the best one I have found.

This is the best book on the subject that I have seen so far! A must for everyone who works with Java and databases.