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Studyguide for Data Management: Databases and Organizations by Watson, ISBN 9780471347118 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines)

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There is confusion here between the "Cram 101" outline and the actual textbook that it purports to cover.

The author of the "Cram 101" outline is listed as "Watson", which is incorrect. "Watson" wrote the actual textbook. (There is no author listed on my copy of the "Cram 101" outline.)

The actual textbook is excellent whereas the "Cram 101" outline offered here is extremely poor. The Book Info under the Editorial Reviews appears to pertain to the actual textbook, which is very misleading.

The actual textbook is a highly technical treatment of relational databases whereas the "Cram 101" outline is simply a list of definitions.

For example, Chapter 10 in the actual textbook covers the database language SQL (Structured Query Language) and contains many examples of coding SQL, as it should. In contrast, the "Cram 101" outline is a list of defnintions of non-technical terms. The first definition in the "Cram 101" outline is for the term "vendor", which it defines as "a person who sells property to a vendee." This has absolutely nothing to do with SQL. Other terms that are defined are "accounting", "Microsoft", and "Industry". The information that the "Cram 101" outline contains is virtually unrelated to the material in the text that it purports to cover.

This is typical of the whole "Cram 101" outline. It contains nothing technical whatsoever, but is just a list of fairly obvious marketing terms, many of which are repeated from chapter to chapter.

The only explanation I can think of is that the wrong title was somehow printed on the cover of the "Cram 101" outline.