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Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as databases)
avg rating 4.27 — 597 ratings — published
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as databases)
avg rating 4.01 — 734 ratings — published 2012
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as databases)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,143 ratings — published 2015
SQL Performance Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as databases)
avg rating 4.41 — 359 ratings — published 2011
SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 20 times as databases)
avg rating 4.02 — 565 ratings — published 2010
Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as databases)
avg rating 3.93 — 537 ratings — published 1996
Database System Concepts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as databases)
avg rating 3.76 — 564 ratings — published 1987
An Introduction to Database Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as databases)
avg rating 3.92 — 374 ratings — published
Learning SQL (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as databases)
avg rating 3.99 — 788 ratings — published 2005
Graph Databases (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as databases)
avg rating 3.64 — 438 ratings — published 2013
SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as databases)
avg rating 3.76 — 142 ratings — published 2009
NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as databases)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,106 ratings — published 2012
MongoDB: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as databases)
avg rating 3.88 — 542 ratings — published 2010
Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as databases)
avg rating 3.70 — 199 ratings — published 2006
PostgreSQL: Up and Running (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as databases)
avg rating 3.75 — 211 ratings — published 2012
Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as databases)
avg rating 4.26 — 246 ratings — published
Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as databases)
avg rating 3.98 — 128 ratings — published 2015
SQL Cookbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as databases)
avg rating 4.05 — 412 ratings — published 2005
Database Systems: The Complete Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as databases)
avg rating 3.80 — 192 ratings — published 1999
Fundamentals of Database Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as databases)
avg rating 3.81 — 966 ratings — published 1989
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as databases)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,052 ratings — published 1996
High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication & Load Balancing (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as databases)
avg rating 4.26 — 445 ratings — published 2004
Database Management Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as databases)
avg rating 3.75 — 312 ratings — published 1997
Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as databases)
avg rating 3.97 — 118 ratings — published 2005
MongoDB in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as databases)
avg rating 4.01 — 168 ratings — published 2011
Database Systems: Design, Implementation And Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as databases)
avg rating 3.56 — 464 ratings — published
PostgreSQL Query Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Building Efficient Queries (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as databases)
avg rating 4.14 — 37 ratings — published
Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as databases)
avg rating 3.66 — 304 ratings — published 1995
Readings in Database Systems, Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by (shelved 7 times as databases)
avg rating 4.59 — 46 ratings — published 1998
Redis in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as databases)
avg rating 3.66 — 122 ratings — published 2013
Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as databases)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,186 ratings — published 1999
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by (shelved 7 times as databases)
avg rating 4.40 — 48 ratings — published 1992
The Art of PostgreSQL (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 6 times as databases)
avg rating 3.64 — 95 ratings — published
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by (shelved 6 times as databases)
avg rating 3.96 — 200 ratings — published 1995
High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as databases)
avg rating 4.39 — 233 ratings — published 2008
The Manga Guide to Databases (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as databases)
avg rating 4.07 — 515 ratings — published 2005
PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as databases)
avg rating 4.27 — 119 ratings — published 2010
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-on Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as databases)
avg rating 4.01 — 309 ratings — published 2007
MySQL and mSQL (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as databases)
avg rating 3.16 — 44 ratings — published 1999
CouchDB: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as databases)
avg rating 3.52 — 69 ratings — published 2009
Head First SQL (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as databases)
avg rating 4.01 — 563 ratings — published 2007
SQL In A Nutshell, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as databases)
avg rating 3.71 — 145 ratings — published 2000
Concise Guide to Databases: A Practical Introduction (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 3.18 — 17 ratings — published 2013
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 3.76 — 269 ratings — published 2010
High-Performance Java Persistence (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 4.47 — 118 ratings — published
NoSQL for Mere Mortals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 4.36 — 42 ratings — published 2015
The Art of SQL (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 3.98 — 172 ratings — published 2006
Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide: A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 4.25 — 275 ratings — published 2014
Beginning Database Design Solutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 3.89 — 54 ratings — published 2008
Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms and All That Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as databases)
avg rating 3.78 — 50 ratings — published 2012
“■ Types are (sets of) things we can talk about.
■ Relations are (sets of) things we say about the things we can talk about.
(There is a nice analogy here that might help you appreciate and remember these important points: Types are to relations as nouns are to sentences.) Thus, in the example, the things we can talk about are employee numbers, names, department numbers, and money values, and the things we say are true utterances of the form “The employee with the specified employee number has the specified name, works in the specified department, and earns the specified salary.”
It follows from all of the foregoing that:
1. Types and relations are both necessary (without types, we have nothing to talk about; without relations, we cannot say anything).
2. Types and relations are sufficient, as well as necessary—i.e., we do not need anything else, logically speaking.
3. Types and relations are not the same thing. It is an unfortunate fact that certain commercial products—not relational ones, by definition!—are confused over this very point.”
― An Introduction to Database Systems
■ Relations are (sets of) things we say about the things we can talk about.
(There is a nice analogy here that might help you appreciate and remember these important points: Types are to relations as nouns are to sentences.) Thus, in the example, the things we can talk about are employee numbers, names, department numbers, and money values, and the things we say are true utterances of the form “The employee with the specified employee number has the specified name, works in the specified department, and earns the specified salary.”
It follows from all of the foregoing that:
1. Types and relations are both necessary (without types, we have nothing to talk about; without relations, we cannot say anything).
2. Types and relations are sufficient, as well as necessary—i.e., we do not need anything else, logically speaking.
3. Types and relations are not the same thing. It is an unfortunate fact that certain commercial products—not relational ones, by definition!—are confused over this very point.”
― An Introduction to Database Systems
“Night after night in that office she had ignored her own need to eat, sleep, or sit down. She was just a mind, floating in the dark, soaring over the terrain. As long as she convinced herself this was true, she could almost forget her body existed at all.”
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