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- From: Jeffrey Stuit <Jeffrey.Stuit@um.cc.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: Database Textbook
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 14:43:43 EDT
- Organization: Industrial Development Div. - Univ. of Michigan
- References: <1992Aug13.202308.22198@coe.montana.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.202308.22198@coe.montana.edu> Bob Cimikowski,
- cimo@cs.montana.edu writes:
- >I am looking for a good textbook to use for a graduate database course.
- >I would like to cover relational theory, normalization, and distributed
- >databases, at the very least, and perhaps object-oriented, logic-based,
- >and semantic models as well. I would prefer to have all of this in a
- >single book and would like to avoid using papers or books that are
- >compilations of papers.
-
-
- My favorite book is "An Introduction to Database Systems" by C.J. Date,
- published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-14201-5). It comes in two
- volumes, but Volume #1 will probably suit your purposes. I has a number
- of
- chapters on relational theory, with an extended treatment of INGRES.
- There
- are separate chapters on normalization, distributed systems, and semantic
- modeling.
-