Database System Concepts

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I want review it to improve my study in computer science. I want to review the chapter2 and chapter3

Good only for presenting the concept.. Too simplistic and way below computer science level. Good for an average user, who just wants to learn the concepts and theories but not going to actually create a database! It's all theories and theories and theories!
I sure know what a "primary key" is or what "relationships" are and how many kinds exist, etc, etc ... but it didn't really teach me how to create it. Just one or two vague examples, that's all.

Perfect for those who can only read symbols. This is quite the typical Computer Science textbook, vastly overpriced and lacking any real information. Veteran CS students will be happy to find that even the most simple concepts have been reduced to pure math, this to make sure that creative students who have no passion for math do not have an unfair advantage.

If you can only read math (or prefer that everything in life is described purely in equation form), this is the best book on the market!

Unsatisfactory. This was purchased as the required text book for a cs course on advanced database. Having no prior knowledge of database, the book is a hard read especially rel alg and rel calc sections. I agree with the ground up approach of the reviewer, however, the book is all theory. Already through chapter 6 and still do not now how to create a database. For $100.00 you expect more.

A typical bad CS textbook. This is a required book for my undergrad Databases class. While reading over it before the semester started I began to wonder why my professor would ever choose such a terrible book. Of course it became clear when, on the first day of class, the professor began to read word for word off slides with the names of the authors sitting at the bottom along with the familiar 'cute' artwork from the cover. Note to instructors: choosing a book because it provides prewritten notes and allows you to be extra lazy is not a valid reason for choosing a textbook. The book is filled with lots of mathematical notation with few good examples. By good examples I mean those that involve realistic databases and not the 'Consider a schema R = (A, B, C, D, E)...' mathematical drivel that fills most of the pages.

Authors : Abraham Silberschatz, Henry Korth, S. Sudarshan
EAN : 9780073523323
ISBN : 0073523321
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Release Date : 2010-01-27
Database System Concepts by Silberschatz is now in its 6th edition and is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible.

Silberschatz is designed for a first course in databases at the junior/senior undergraduate level or the first year graduate level. It also contains additional material that can be used as supplements or as introductory material for an advanced course. Because the authors present concepts as intuitive descriptions, a familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level programming language are the only prerequisites. Important theoretical results are covered, but formal proofs are omitted. In place of proofs, figures and examples are used to suggest why a result is true.

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