Outlines & Highlights for Data Management: Databases and Organizations by Watson, ISBN: 0471347116 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) (Paperback)

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.

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• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: AIPI (October 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1428805575
• ISBN-13: 978-1428805576
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,068,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Confusion between "Cram 101" outline and actual textbook, March 21, 2007

By	Graham Gersdorff (Greensboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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.