| Databases Demystified (Demystified)
by Andrew Oppel
Average Customer Review:  based on 21 reviews.
Customer Review: There are two things in life that are difficult: databases and comedy. Fortunately, the author makes understanding databases far less difficult with his clear explanations and examples. I confess that some aspects of a database (and I have some experience) are still a mystery, but I hurriedly read this book because I have some much ...
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| Modern Database Management (8th Edition)
by Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Mary Prescott, Fred McFadden
Average Customer Review:  based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: 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 this book to anyone getting into the database world.
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| Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Seventh Edition
by Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel
Average Customer Review: based on 26 reviews.
Customer Review: This text covers database theory and some SQL (two chapters or so). I think it's generally good book as an intro to database systems. It will not make you into DBA or programmer, but you'll feel better grip of database concepts you may encounter in other more 'practical' books (like DB programming, or administration). To learn SQL f...
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| The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches
by David T. Olson
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: This book does an excellent job of bridging a well-researched assessment of the Church in America, with practical responses that the Church must make in order to fulfill the mission of the Kingdom of God. Olson approaches the reality of an American Church in decline with love and respect for the Body of Christ; while he gives church ...
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| Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Eighth Edition
by Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel
Average Customer Review:  based on 1 review.
Customer Review: Book does not come with the student content that it is suppose to come with. It is supposed to come with online appendices A though L and downloads for files used in each chapter. I would not advise to by a 130 dollar incomplete book. It was release in December of 2007 unprepared for people to use because it makes references to sites ...
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| Database Management Systems
by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke
Average Customer Review: based on 45 reviews.
Customer Review: A lot of the reviews on here are negatively critiquing this book for what I feel are the wrong reasons. I used this book for a senior University course, and it covered the material, and did so well, and to a good level of detail. It gives great coverage on the theoretical level and decent coverage on the details/practical level. I t...
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| Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
by Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage
Average Customer Review:  based on 19 reviews.
Customer Review: Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage wrote Refactoring Databases, they say, "to share their experiences and techniques at evolving database schemas via refactoring". The book, particularly in the thorough list of refactorings detailed in later chapters, reveals them to be experienced users of, and writers about, agile development approa...
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| Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional
by Clare Churcher
Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews.
Customer Review: This book does a great job of explaining data modeling, including how it corresponds to tables in a database. The book is well-written and very organized, and the examples do a good job of illustrating the concepts. It's also mercifully short compared to other options. It's appropriate for database beginners, and for experiences deve...
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| Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design, 4th Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Toby J. Teorey, Sam S. Lightstone, Tom Nadeau
Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: I also am a reviewer of the book and an interested colleague. I've used this book since its first edition as my main reference on basic data modeling, and I have been happy to comment on its newer editions. This 4th edition improves on earlier ones by including the Unified Modeling Language (UML), my own first choice for a design lan...
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| Beginning VB 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)
by Vidya Vrat Agarwal, James Huddleston
Average Customer Review:  based on 1 review.
Customer Review: Not what I expected. I was looking for a book to help me use the features of VB 2008 to create and use databases. While this book is very authorative, it does very little to ade me in my goal. The examples and descriptions are all based on using Console application forms in VB. While this gives you the technical information for manipu...
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