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Modern Database Management (8th Edition)

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Modern Database Management is the leading text in the business database market. It's noted for its focus on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers.

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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 17, 2008 Type: User Review Not an easy read

Our database teacher recommended this book. I bought this book and found it not an easy read. After going through the whole book still I could not understand how the database design process works. Then I went on google to look for some thing easy...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 13, 2005 Type: User Review Good content overall

I used this book in graduate school while taking the Database Management System course. The book has usefull information. It help me understand and practice normalization. Some unfamiliar concepts also were learnt from the book. I can recommend...
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From: Amazon Posted: Apr 26, 2004 Type: User Review Very practical.

Indeed, a brilliant rendition of practical information. I am currently working as a chief technical designer in a financial data warehouse project for a fortune 100 company. Chapter 11 (Data Warehousing) unfolded some time-critical points.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 20, 2003 Type: User Review IT'S POORLY ORGANIZED AND DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW; NOT INTRO BK

This is a required textbook for an Intro to DB course. Once again, the University of Texas at Dallas has followed a constant pattern of requiring textbooks that are 1) Poorly organized/written books, 2) expensive and 3)The professor haven't read...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 17, 2003 Type: User Review Explains in Depth, important Info

Much like Hoffer's other book, which focuses on an earlier stage in the Sys. Devel. Life Cycle (Analysis & Design), this is the next book in "the series".
This book goes over some of the fundamental concepts of modeling and relationship...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 19, 2003 Type: User Review Very Useful

I bought this book for my database class and I found this book to be very useful. If this is your area of study, I would suggest keeping the book as a reference guide. I regret selling mine to a friend, as there were plenty of times where I...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 17, 2002 Type: User Review Dry reading

Packed full of information but very dry reading. I think it doesn't engage the reader very well. I bought this book for a college course and found it difficult to read (and I have database experience) because the material was just well, dry and...
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 30, 2002 Type: User Review Good Foundation

This book provides an excellent foundation to the principles of database and data management. It explains some of the more difficult concepts quite well. I understand there is a newer edition, and as with all computer books, would generally...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 16, 2000 Type: User Review Make better databases

Highly reccomendable. Read it, and you'll learn rules for making faster and easier to maintain databases.
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 28, 2000 Type: User Review Amazingly well written

I bought this book for a DBMS course in a university and I liked it. This is the best written book compared to any IT book on any subject I've read. Everything seems so easy and simple with this. And this covers a lot of ground, enough at least...
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