First Course in Database Systems, A

By Jeffrey D. Ullman and Jennifer Widom

Book Overview

For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior, and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. Written by well-known computer scientists, this accessible and succinct introduction to database systems focuses on database design and use. The authors provide in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer, leaving implementation for later courses. It is the first database systems text to cover such topics as UML, algorithms for manipulating dependencies in relations, extended relational algebra, PHP, 3-tier architectures, data cubes, XML, XPATH, XQuery, XSLT. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0138613370
• ISBN13: 9780138613372
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

The book is excellent for beginners in the field of Databases. SQL is covered very good. The examples, (based on beer, bars, sells, drinkers, likes and ...) are also very good (although I do not like beer or alcohol in particular), explained in detail and the students understand them very well. I am using it for the English speaking group of computer science at our University, and so far (we have covered almost half of the...

An excellent text for someone that is new to databases

This was the text used for my first course in databases several years ago. It is written in plain english and I find that to be one of its primary strengths as it is geared towards people with no experience at all with databases.

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Great book

I'm taking a Database class right now. I'm using this book as another reference besides the required textbook and found out that this book is very clear in explaining things. Worth every penny !

An excellent resource. Informative, helpful and readable

This book, along with the online resources, has been a very valuable resource to me. This book is exactly what I have been looking for and was afraid did not exist. The book was quite readable and the examples helped explain some of the more difficult concepts. All in all, it made databases seem simple