Excellent, concise, challenging, and thought-provoking

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Book:		Database in Depth
Subject:		Excellent, concise, challenging, and thought-provoking
Date:		2005-10-18 09:37:21
From:		Eric

Rating: Since I read Date's An Introduction To Database Systems 8th Edition, all 1024 pages of it, I've been wishing he'd do a shorter guide so that people put off by the size of Intro (outstanding though the book is) would still benefit from learning the relational model. Database In Depth is even better than I expected, since he incorporated concepts from Third Manifesto as well. This is a book every software developer should read. The relational model offers a useful, elegant, and complete model of data that everyone using SQL, XML, or any other data management technology needs to understand, if only to use their own technologies more effectively. Well-written, well-organized, and the examples at the end of the chapters are truly icing on the cake - they provoke thinking, not just rote memorization. This will make an excellent class textbook.