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Database Systems: The Complete Book (2nd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Hector Garcia-molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $132.00
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 216428
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Pages: 1248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.1 x 2.1
ISBN: 0131873253
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780131873254
ASIN: 0131873253
Publication Date: June 15, 2008
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Product Description
This introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems. KEY TOPICS: The first half of the book provides in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer. It covers the latest database standards SQL:1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts. The second half of the book covers databases from the point of view of the DBMS implementor, focusing on storage structures, query processing, and transaction management. The book covers the main techniques in these areas with broader coverage of query optimization than most other texts, along with advanced topics including multidimensional and bitmap indexes, distributed transactions, and information integration techniques. Ideal for professionals and students interested in database systems. A basic understanding of algebraic expressions and laws, logic, basic data structure, OOP concepts, and programming environments is implied.
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 Comprehensive and Easy Reading October 14, 2008
Adnan Masood (Monrovia, CA, USA)
You cannot go wrong with Hector Garcia-Molina, the author with highest h-index in computer science and Ullman. This book is an easy reading, something uncommon for the books of this genre. It covers a wide variety of topics from relational algebra to E/R modeling, data mining algorithms and SQL; makes a wonderful textbook for graduate studies.
 Timely delivery and book is in great shape September 29, 2008
George Taku (USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I receive this book in a timely. My payment processing too longer and I was informed via email regularly. The payment error was my fault. I receive a book that was in the good shape that I expected.
 I don't like this book October 29, 2007
Morpheus (Chicago, IL USA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I agree with other reviewer, many cross references in the book, it makes extremely hard to read the material.
English is not native for me, I have very hard time understanding the text. I have no problems with other technical books in general.
I need more answers to exercises, no way to test you knowledge.
Good information, but disorganized Exercises March 21, 2007
Noyabronok (Maryland)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has good information, and is fairly well organized. I like the examples in every section of the chapter.
However, a lot of the Exercises are not very well presented. For example, one exercise section had about 5 exercises. Exercise 2 references 1. 3 references 1. 4 references 2. 4 references 1. 5 reference 4 AND 2. When I was doing exercise 5 it took me 15 minutes to figure out just what it was asking, and I'm still not sure that I got it right. I've never seen any other book chain reference like that before. In my opinion, referencing should make you look at no more than one other contiguous and non-further-referencing block of information.
I love this book! March 1, 2006
H. Karn
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this book because it was assigned as the primary textbook for a database course. But I have also consulted this book in courses on data structures and algorithms, computer organization, operating systems, programming languages, and even knowledge-based systems (the section on data mining).
The book is not always easy to read, because the material is not easy. The authors write very clearly, and give many good examples to illustrate their points.
I like the clean layout of the book. I appreciate that it does not have the gratuitous, gimmicky, irritating graphics and sidebars that some authors of computer science textbooks think they have to throw in to keep us amused.
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