On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation for a good database theory book?
Can you do any better than E.F. Codd's "A relational model for large shared databanks", from "Communications of the ACM" 13(6), pp377-387 ? It doesn't seem to be available online, though I'd assume that a decent university library would have a copy that you could read, and archives may be available to ACM members through <http://www.acm.org/pubs/cacm/>. Pretty much everything else just extends on ideas from Codd's paper, so getting your head around that would be an excellent foundation. But if it's a textbook you want, the only one I'm familiar with is the textbook from my database theory course in college: _Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management_ by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/061906269X> I thought it was a decent book, but it's the only database textbook I've read, so I can't really say how it compares to others. You can at least look over the Amazon recommendations though... -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
