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Summary: Great resource, great results
Review: This cleared up a lot of mistakes and confusion I had in my Access designs. It's a simple, straightforward, plain-English explanation of how relational databases think. This book made Access easy for me, and it isn't an Access book.
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Summary: Wonderful Explanations, Reference
Review: This is a book that I wish all were like: Well written, helpful examples, good explanations, excellent coverage, and above all completly lucid and clear. Harrington gives a great account of relational databases and practical rationales for their designs. She really does begin at the beginning go until the end and stop-- which is much more than what I'll say for most other books on database design. Lives up to the title and then some! Bravo!!
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Summary: Great book to learn from and use as a later reference.
Review: This is a great book, the concepts are explained in plain terms. The one bad point is that relationships between entities should have used more diagrams. Although the text is well written the concepts in themselves can be quite conveluded, simple diagrams could have replaced many long winded party of the thid part passages and still maintained its coherency. Over all I thought it was not only a teaching tool but also a great reference. It is clearly from the mind of a teacher.
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Summary: Very good, but only for beginners.
Review: Very good, but only for beginners who need to understand the basics of databases, database modeling, normal forms and so on. Introductory level. The three study cases are interesting, but not as good as possible. The database models are not developed "with" the reader but already done and briefly analized.
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