Databases

Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management
by Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel
Average Customer Review: based on 13 reviews.
Customer Review: This book is absolutely worthless. Don't buy unless absolutely necessary. Nobody will buy it back.

Fundamentals of Database Systems (5th Edition)
by Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe
Average Customer Review: based on 53 reviews.
Customer Review: This is an excellent and thorough analysis of database processes involving transactions, concurrency control, security and covers relational tables, object-relational databases as well as object oriented technology. There is a thorough overview of UML as well as ER design tools. It is a tough read and covers a lot of material and is...

Modern Database Management (9th Edition)
by Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Mary Prescott, Heikki Topi
Average Customer Review: based on 17 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.

Concepts of Database Management (Sam 2007 Compatible Products)
by Philip J. Pratt, Joseph J. Adamski
Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: The Book is in exellent condition and the price was great. This economic budget has made everyone look for ways to save money.

Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management (5th Edition)
by Thomas M. Connolly, Carolyn E. Begg
Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
Customer Review: This book is the fifth edition. It has 34 chapters, over 1000 pages. The theoretical foundation is clearly presented. Using Oracle architecture to explain the concept is excellent. Coverages on Security and Administration, Distributed DBMS, Mobile Databases, SQL 2008, Java, XML are all good. I recommend this book to all database profe...

Database Processing (11th Edition)
by David M. Kroenke, David Auer
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: Book was delayed by Postal Service and did not meet deadline. Replacement book was sent overnight by Amazon, but too late to begin class. Book was in excellent condition.

Database Concepts (4th Edition)
by David M. Kroenke, David Auer
Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: Great seller, book was in new condition like stated, was shipped and recieved very fast

Databases Demystified (Demystified)
by Andrew Oppel
Average Customer Review: based on 24 reviews.
Customer Review: Very clear and concise coverage of many essential database issues. I really appreciate the brevity and lack of unnecessary jargon and formalism. However it's definitely worth pointing out that the examples come from Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access and to a lesser degree Oracle.

Database Management Systems
by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke
Average Customer Review: based on 46 reviews.
Customer Review: I'm a "practitioner", not a student. I've worked as a DBA and a developer and have some graduate education in Computer Science, so maybe I'm not in the target audience. I never formally studied databases and I bought this book because I was considering taking a course for which this was the textook. I just read the book, instead. Co...

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals
by Hiroki Azuma, Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: I will not attempt to describe Otaku: Database animals better than Daitokuji31 in the previous post. Azuma gives a good insight to a commonly disliked topic, otaku. He points out the issue of the schism between society and the otaku culture, and he attempts to explain it so hopefully a resolution can be made. I just wanted to add tha...