Managing the Data-Base Environment

by James Martin

Offers Management-Oriented Techniques for the Management of Existing & Future Databases. Also Helps Provide End-User Management with High-Level Languages for Querying and Searching Data

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135505828
• ISBN13: 9780135505823
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 766 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Avoiding an imploding trainwreck.

On the surface this looks like the most dated and boring textbook on databases imaginable. Upon closer inspection I discovered that it's full of really sound advice on database design and implementation, much of which applies to newer technologies like mysql/php. I got my copy in the free bin at Powell's Technical Bookstore, which is a total candy store of geeky goodness. There is basic advice on usability and end-users that is still ignored by many IT departments. Basically everything in here on design, data modeling, canonical synthesis is portable to someone doing database driven websites. Nothing like going into a project theoretically informed.