IMO, the people writing one- and two-star reviews haven't really read the book.
It's well-organized down to the section level and has lots of excellent content.
It just needs some refinement on the page-to-page level.
And it needs to be brought up-to-date with current progress in the field.
A fourth edition would have been really great, but it won't happen, because both authors have left academia for Microsoft -- a factor of 5 to 10 in salary !
If you can get a used copy of R&G for twenty or thirty dollars, go for it.
But if you're paying full price, let's hope someone has done better in the last 18 years !
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Database Management Systems Paperback – 1 September 2002
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Raghu Ramakrishnan
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Johannes Gehrke
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- Paperback : 936 pages
- ISBN-10 : 007123151X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0071231510
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reviewer54o
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As others have mentioned sometimes the writing and explanation aren't ...
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As others have mentioned sometimes the writing and explanation aren't very clear. However I found the exercises in the book to be very helpful, although I didn't find solutions in the textbook and had to look them up online. I'll have more to say once i get my midterm back
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Not a great textbook, not a terrible textbook
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The textbook comes complete with great online supplemental information, but that doesn't make it a great textbook. I've found that the material is often not explained thoroughly enough. Also, some of the exercises expect you to know about concepts that are not covered adequately in the text (for example, there are questions on 2NF, and there is no more than a couple sentences on the subject). The material as a whole is not explained very clearly, and the chapters on the lower-level subject material (systems) are not quite up to par.
I suppose the reason I was a bit disappointed is because this is such an important subject, and I was hoping for a real keeper. This book is decent, but definitely not great.
I suppose the reason I was a bit disappointed is because this is such an important subject, and I was hoping for a real keeper. This book is decent, but definitely not great.
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