Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management

by Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel

Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Seventh Edition is one of the most comprehensive database textbooks available. The proven success of database design treatment is sustained and further improved in this revision. The proven Parts organizations streamline the chapter coverage, so it is an ideal choice for your classroom. Each Part opens with a new business vignette, which provides real world examples to engage your students. The new edition includes updates in every chapter as well as added exercises and cases. There are new chapters such as Advanced Modeling Concepts, Database Performance Tuning and Query Optimization, and Database Connectivity and Web Development. In the seventh edition you will find examples of database usage, which highlights eBAY for compelling context. In our new Query Optimization chapter, we cover database performance tuning concepts, index selectivity and SQL coding practices. There is added EERD coverage such as clusters and subtype discriminator attributes. With the authors' strong writing style and outstanding balance of theory and practice, this is just a small sampling of the improvements we have made to the new edition of Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel.

Genres: Textbooks, Computer Science, Technology, Programming, Nonfiction, Reference, Technical

696 pages, Hardcover

Published January 27, 2006

Reviews

[Wendelle]

It's a good and complete book but I feel its verbosity detracts from its clarity

[Becky]

We used the 13th Edition in my graduate class, and this was hands down the best textbook we had used yet. Excellent organization, clean and clear graphics, very approachable content.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot of information to unpack in this textbook. It is a little difficult to tie together elements to a particular database system. For example, the author references differences between Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, but the unique versions of each are not always clearly marked. Fortunately, I was reading this while taking an in-classroom course, so specifics were easier to gain from that instruction. For relational database theory, this was a good text.

[Phương Nguyễn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book because it is referred to in my "introduction to database" unit. I did not read the whole book but all recommended sections are really informative with clear and thorough explanations. Such a good book for beginners like me.

[Servabo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really excellent book in describing the concepts and breaking complex theories into simpler terms. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone learning about database design and systems.

[Jay M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some explanations were too redundant to the point were its hard to comprehend when it could have been written using less words.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Glad I bought used (as usual). A great professor practically rendered this useless, but will keep for possible reference.

[Sara · Rating 1 out of 5]

Outdated

Outdated, online material doesn’t exist. You probably aren’t buying this because you have a choice though I suppose. Good luck.

[Kaylee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this for a class--this textbook was super helpful and made learning the basics of SQL easy. I loved the class and this book.

[Skye Khuu · Rating 1 out of 5]

You would think they fixed all errors by the 14th edition...

Explanations are poorly worded, repetitive, and filled with unnecessary technical jargon to explain simple concepts.

[Jason Payne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad, not terribly good either, there's no way this is worth $100. Of course, the same could be said of most course texts I've had, but still--it's such a rich, rewarding field of study and despite nice and colorful graphics throughout, the text ignores too much of what is really interesting about databases.

[Tom Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extraordinarily complete and accessible in its scope and approach, this is the ONE database book I keep coming back to for an on-the-job reference work. If you only have one database book, make it this one.

[Sri Sai]

itz good

[Johnny Kavanagh]

Excellent book with also a lot of knowledge about SQL,reccomended.

[Shivaraju]

excellent book

[Justine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn't written in the most accessible manner and seems to emphasize theory a bit more than I would have preferred.

[Jakob Barnard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty solid textbook, laid out the concepts well.

[Jacob · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the best text book's I have ever dealt with. The information is clear and easy to follow. It was a great resource to use for a database design introductory class.

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[Nik · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ch. 1 - Overview, boring file storage background

[Leon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro to Database management

[Arlene M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent book!

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

as college textbooks go this is laid out well and easy to read.

[TJ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Made me hate databases more than I already do.