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Summary: A disturbing book
Review: If you need to know something about relational databases, it is possible to pick out some things. If you want to read on every page about how nobody is doing it right, this is for you. His monomania about the shortcomings of database vendors verges on the insane.
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Summary: Very Authoritative and In-depth
Review: This book may be short in length; however, it is has enormous informational depth. Pascal certainly knows his stuff. In this book he writes about concepts and practices that are greatly lacking in the world of database management and development. He points out how, even, expert players of the database world fail to give the most fundamental and important aspects of database design/development proper emphasis. And he tells us why it is so important.Readers really should have a good understanding of SQL before reading this book. If the reader has solid understanding of set theory (collage level) they should follow this book easily. If the reader is not too sharp with math they will struggle with many of the advance concepts that Pascal covers. But the reader should still understand the underlying message, database integrity. This book explains why database integrity is vital to a successful database, as well as, how to implement good database integrity. Pascal does get a little too passionate, well actually, he rants. Some people might find it a little dark, but I thought it was a kind of funny.
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Summary: Very Authoritative and In-depth
Review: This book may be short in length; however, it is has enormous informational depth. Pascal certainly knows his stuff. In this book he writes about concepts and practices that are greatly lacking in the world of database management and development. He points out how, even, expert players of the database world fail to give the most fundamental and important aspects of database design/development proper emphasis. And he tells us why it is so important. Readers really should have a good understanding of SQL before reading this book. If the reader has solid understanding of set theory (collage level) they should follow this book easily. If the reader is not too sharp with math they will struggle with many of the advance concepts that Pascal covers. But the reader should still understand the underlying message, database integrity. This book explains why database integrity is vital to a successful database, as well as, how to implement good database integrity. Pascal does get a little too passionate, well actually, he rants. Some people might find it a little dark, but I thought it was a kind of funny.
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Summary: Jumpstart your IT career-with 1 book!
Review: This is the book that jumped my career orders of magnitude higher than it otherwise would have been. It does take some quiet time to read and understand this book. If you're looking for an MSAccess primer to read on the bus on the way in to your HTML scripting job, this isn't it, buy a "dummies" book. On the other hand, if you want to understand the guiding principles of ALL database design and modeling (which is the critical core task of all information application development), and then be better at it than 99% of your peers, I don't know of a better document you could possibly study. In terms of real world, on the job usefullness, this book surpasses ANYTHING else I've EVER read about Information Technology.
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Summary: Jumpstart your IT career-with 1 book!
Review: This is the book that jumped my career orders of magnitude higher than it otherwise would have been. It does take some quiet time to read and understand this book. If you're looking for an MSAccess primer to read on the bus on the way in to your HTML scripting job, this isn't it, buy a "dummies" book. On the other hand, if you want to understand the guiding principles of ALL database design and modeling (which is the critical core task of all information application development), and then be better at it than 99% of your peers, I don't know of a better document you could possibly study. In terms of real world, on the job usefullness, this book surpasses ANYTHING else I've EVER read about Information Technology.
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