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- From: jyrki@uta.fi (Jyrki Nummenmaa)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
- Subject: Re: Database Textbooks
- Message-ID: <6463@kielouta.fi>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 06:47:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.221126.4975@coe.montana.edu>
- Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
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- In article <1992Aug26.221126.4975@coe.montana.edu> cimo@cs.montana.edu (Bob Cimikowski) writes:
- >A few weeks ago I asked for recommendations of good graduate-level database
- >textbooks. I have received a number of recommendations so far, which I will
- >summarize and post shortly. Mysteriously, none of the replies have mentioned
- >a text which I seem to like after a preliminary scan --- "Conceptual Database
- >Design: An Entity-Relationship Approach" (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992) by
- >Batini, Ceri, and Navathe. Any comments on this text? Perhaps it's simply
- >too new to have been used yet.
-
- I have not used it in teaching, but I have seen it.
- It just does not meet your initial requirements,
- since it is not a general database textbook.
- The book by Batini, Ceri and Navathe concentrates
- solely in the database design (as also the title suggests),
- and, as far as I can remember, you required that
- the book should cover also various other aspects.
-
- For the book, I would say that it is more practice than
- theory oriented, and I would imagine that the book
- is a good choice for anybody seeking a practical book
- about conceptual database design.
-
- Jyrki
-