Relational databases

Database Design for Mere Mortals(R): A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design (2nd Edition)
by Michael J. Hernandez
Average Customer Review: based on 127 reviews.
Customer Review: This book was just the text I was looking for as a n00b data base designer looking to build a data base for a pet project of mine. I'm a forester and forest planner, not a computer specialist. Thus, I needed instruction from the ground up, and this book fit the bill. Some specific praise: First, the book bridged the gap between adm...

Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners
by C.J. Date
Average Customer Review: based on 22 reviews.
Customer Review: C.J. Date is the expert on relational databases. This is a great book I use it in my Systems Analysis and Design Class.

Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data
by Tom Johnston, Randall Weis
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Publication Date: July 2010

Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Terry Halpin, Tony Morgan
Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: Everyone needs this book. Read more to find out why: If you intend to create genuinely useful business applications without first creating an accurate conceptual data model and deriving the database schema from the model, then I hope your projects have very large budgets and flexible deadlines, because you'll need both. Accurate conc...

Databases, Types and the Relational Model (3rd Edition)
by C. J. Date, Hugh Darwen
Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
Customer Review: In this 3rd edition of The Third Manifesto, the authors have, in their own words, stripped the 'polemics'and added exercises to facilitate tuition. This is a further refinement and expansion of their blueprint for a truly relational Database Management System (DBMS). It is fair to say that they are not influenced in the slightest by ...

Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition: Clearly Explained 3e (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Jan L. Harrington
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Publication Date: July 2009

Handbook of Relational Database Design
by Candace C. Fleming, Barbara von Halle
Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: This is the best intro RDBMS book out there. It explains everything you need to know to design a database. It isn't vendor documentation and isn't trying to be. There are some areas that would benefit from a second edition but nothing in it is patently "wrong" or "out-dated."

The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review and Analysis
by C. J. Date
Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: This book explains the relational database model origins. The language is highly technical. If you want to know te basis of relational data model, don't try this book, 'cause it suposes you have enough experience about databases. I use this book in my database courses, 'cause topics as normalization are covered in this publication.

The Relational Model for Database Management: Version 2
by E. F. Codd
Average Customer Review: based on 3 reviews.
Customer Review: Dr. E. F. Codd, for those who don't know of him, is the inventor of the Relational Model for Database. And this magisterial book stands as a clear and concise articulation of the theory and practice on which this model is founded. Now, Dr. Codd was a mathematician. However, the writing is not overly riddled with formulaic representat...

Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems
by S. Sumathi, S. Esakkirajan
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication Date: December 2009