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Database Forum / General DB Topics / DB Theory / December 2007Anyone remember this book?
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Relational-Database-Candace-Fleming/dp/0201114348 /ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197329088&sr=1-1 I know this is a theory group, but at the end of the day the rubber must meet road. > http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Relational-Database-Candace-Fleming/dp/0201114348 /ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197329088&sr=1-1 > > I know this is a theory group, but at the end of the day the rubber must > meet road. I vaguely remember the cover. I remember being unimpressed by von Halle on more than one occasion. [Who? Bob? Unimpressed? Say it ain't so! - ed.] > http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Relational-Database-Candace-Fleming/dp/0201114348 /ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197329088&sr=1-1 > > I know this is a theory group, but at the end of the day the rubber must > meet road. It must be good. Galaxy Books in the UK want over £130 for a copy! I don't know why you'd hesitate to refer to a purportedly practical book on a theory group. Database management is a practical matter. Any so-called theory of database management that doesn't facilitate the practice would be nothing but self-indulgent conjecture. Theorists (should) want to know about what goes on in practice just as much as practitioners should want to know what theory has to say. I've never seen the book. The reviews on Amazon are glowing but when it comes to Amazon reviews I am a cynic so I do wonder if it panders to bad habits, defective intuitions, and superstition? I hope someone who has actually seen it will tell us more. Roy >> I hope someone who has actually seen it will tell us more. << I just happen to have a copy; the pages are turning yellow on the outside :) Highly prescriptive. It has a series of rules that you apply and gives pretty good examples, instead of the usual overly-abbreviated ones you find in text books. It suffers only form being dated in the SQL used in the text -- DRI actions and other goodies did not exist back then. >> Galaxy Books in the UK want over £130 for a copy! << Go to Amazon.com and you can get it for much less. Or trade me a copy of an English translation of Capek's FACTORY FOR THE ABSOLUTE or my Grandfather's children's books in Slovak. >> I hope someone who has actually seen it will tell us more. << I just happen to have a copy; the pages are turning yellow on the outside :) Highly prescriptive. It has a series of rules that you apply and gives pretty good examples, instead of the usual overly-abbreviated ones you find in text books. It suffers only form being dated in the SQL used in the text -- DRI actions and other goodies did not exist back then. >> Galaxy Books in the UK want over £130 for a copy! << Go to Amazon.com and you can get it for much less. Or trade me a copy of an English translation of Capek's FACTORY FOR THE ABSOLUTE or my Grandfather's children's books in Slovak. Ever see Wikipedia's entry on DRI? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_Referential_Integrity >>> I hope someone who has actually seen it will tell us more. << > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Ever see Wikipedia's entry on DRI? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_Referential_Integrity pretty lame indeed |
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