Fundamentals of Database Systems (6th Edition) 6th Edition

This book really helped me with the theory of database systems. It explains the fundamentals of modeling data, and today that's very important to software engineers that work to get the best approach of business data.The ERE model is showed and compared with UML class diagram, and that's very cool because permits more possibilities to modeling and understanding of the business. Also, the book explains the XML and Object-Oriented approach.A very deep description of SQL and it's possible operations is described and this is related to architecture of database management systems, the way that the queries are processed and how the engine gets the data from the storage medium.Totally recommendable to students and professionals as a reference.

This is a great fundamentals text. The section overviews guide you through the book in a smooth fashion without any surprises. The exercises reinforce knowledge without overwhelming and the language is not terse.This book does imply a basic familiarity with set theory, which frankly is an obvious prerequisite as this is not exactly a MySQL cookbook and focuses more on the theoretical concepts of database systems and less on their implementations / semantics. Don't let that deter you. Set theory is not difficult to learn and reading this book will grant you all the knowledge you need to correctly design a database for nearly all commercial applications.The figures do take away from the effectiveness of the book in some situations. Some figures from 3 chapters previous are referenced, which will have you flipping back thick chunks of paper. The figures are also of poor quality for a 2011 publication. Not a huge issue, but could be better.

Great book, but I would have bought the digital copy from the publisher. They have an ipad/iphone app called smart course, but it only allows you to view the digital copy. Currently it won't allow offline viewing. They clam this will change in the future app update.

This one was my first use book i got and is was as description still with the CD.

I have studied through many computer textbooks at this point and this one is a snore. I can barely read a page without going to sleep. The problem is not the content. At the theoretical level this book is filled with good information. But unless you have decided to create a new database system (language and database software), there is no practical value to the detail in which this book presents database theory. The presentation needs help. Examples where a query statement is presented with the output generated would help. Case studies would be nice too. I found myself going online way to often to find examples of what the book was talking about. Wish my school went with a different textbook.

I needed this for my class, and it was fine, but not great. The level of detail was pretty good and there were some well-developed examples, but as some other reviewers noted, the nature of the components building off one another meant that it might be hard to find the referenced schema in an earlier (or later) section of the book while you were looking at one section. And it didn't necessary give you the page numbers so you could flip back and forth easily. If they just added the page numbers that would definitely bump my rating up.

The book is very detailed and well organized. It has a lot of examples to help you understand abstract concepts. Good for learner with or without previous experience.

This is the required textbook for the Databases class at my University. Personally, I find the material itself to be well-written and simple enough to understand. That being said, it is a 300 level course that also goes along with lecture from a professor, so perhaps if you are attempting to learn databases solo, you might want to look into some other options.Really my only problem with this book, which others have pointed out, is that it always references figures from other pages. This means that you're constantly flipping back and forth which does get annoying.