An Introduction to Database Systems, Eighth Edition

By C.J. Date

Book Overview

/* JT744, 0-201-74154-7, Date, Introduction to Database Systems 7e with E-Book, CH03 ATEGORY = Database Systems = An Introduction to Database Systems, Seventh Edition, with E-Book = C. J. Date*/ Each copy of Chris Date's introduction to database theory is now accompanied by a CD-ROM containing an electronic version of the book, allowing readers to highlight text, make margin notes and more. Introduction to Database Systems provides a solid grounding in the foundations of database technology and shedding some light on how the field is likely to develop in the future. Its coverage reflects the latest developments and advances in the field of database systems. Emphasizing insight and understanding rather than formalism, Chris Date has divided the book into six parts: Basic Concepts, The Relational Model, Database Design, Transaction Management, Further Topics, and Object and Object/Relational Databases. Throughout the book, there are numerous worked examples and exercises for the reader with answers as well as an extensive set of annotated references. This book is appropriate for programmers looking for a thorough introduction to or reference of database theory, especially with regard to relational databases. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201385902
• ISBN13: 9780201385908
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 949 Pages
• Weight: 3.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

An indispensible text for serious practioners

This is not a how-to, it is a how-to-understand. I own multiple editions of this book starting with the 3rd, when many of the examples referred to RBase. It won't tell you, with simple color diagrams and cut-and-paste examples, how to optimize your Oracle SQL queries or tune your DB/2 engine, but it will teach you the underlying principles of relational databases, from which the serious professional will be able to extrapolate...

An Introduction for Software Engineers, not Users

Sorry, no full-color graphics, and no included disk full of fill-in-the-blank examples and wizards to build your contact list. This is an old-fashioned academic tome, not a how-to book or thinly-disguised marketing tool for some commercial database system.I suppose the biggest criticism I could make of this book is that it overestimates the target audience. Unfortunately, many who see the title of this book assume that it...

A Long Shef Life

This is the best technical book I have ever read (and I have read many). This book was required for a graduate school database class at Carnegie Mellon. Although I read the class required chapters, I found little time to really read the book while in school. Since graduation (I am now a consultant) I have returned to this book constantly. It is the perfect text for those who want a solid and analytical background in...

An EXCELLENT theoretical treatment

An introduction to Database systems is an excellent work and to call this work an introduction is misleading (Date explains in the preface why he chose to call it an introduction). The work is theoretically extremely dense and it requires a lot of effort to fully understand all the concepts that Date treats really exhaustively throughout the book. The book gives in-depth insight into database design concepts and it breaks...

Excellent, if textually dense ACADEMIC textbook

(Note this review applies to the sixth edition of this book).If you wish to quickly jump into database design without a full and rigorous knowledge of database theory (by no means a bad thing) then this book is not for you. If, however, you want a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of database theory considered from an academic standpoint, then this book is highly recommended.Date is one of the giant figures...