Re: What is The Current Definitive Book for Database

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:30:26 GMT
Message-ID: <3CE3ECAE.EABE478D@exesolutions.com>

Sted Alana wrote:

> >> What Is The Current Definitive Book for Database Systems?
>
> >Two books to read are:
>
> >"An Introduction to Database Systems" C.J. Date
> >Addison Wesley; ISBN: 0201684195
>
> An introduction? that doesnt sound very definitive.
>
> >"Transaction Processing" Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter
> > Morgan Kaufmann; ISBN: 1558601902
>
> This seems to be very specific, but thanks for your suggestion.
>
> I ask this question because there are so many database books out there,
> which makes it difficult to decide which one purchase. Surely, there must be
> a definitive book for database where all serious database employees/managers
> should own.

I disagree to. Once one gets past college-type exploration of database theory ... these books are largely irrelevant: Everything that one would want to look up in a book is vendor specific.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 12:30:26 CDT