On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:11, aracelipraiz wrote: >Miguel A Paraz wrote: > > Speaking of, I find myself lacking in database theory know-how. > > I really found it so boring back in college, but it's essential now. > > Referring to this earlier thread on databases, I am just > curious to know what text is used in undergrad database courses. > Is it "An Introduction to Database Systems" by C.J. Date? > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201385902/ > Quite a good text book... I still have my copy of that book here in my office :-)
He presents a very good discussion on databases and database design, as well as make some sound arguments with regards to some practices in the database realm like discouraging the use of null values in tables, made some comparisons between RDBMS and OO DB implementations. I noticed that a local reprint (P495) of this at National, > so I assume that at least one major university must be using > this --- UP, Ateneo, De La Salle University? > > Whatever is used, could it be said that the graduates of these > schools (those who took and passed the database course) would be well > versed in the substance/content of this C.J. Date text, and that > while perhaps not having the benefit of long experience designing > databases, or long experience with specific implementations such > as Oracle or MySQL or PostgreSQL, they would nevertheless have a solid > theoretical foundation and thus be in a excellent position to > properly DESIGN databases (databases, not database implementations) > in the real world? > Dunno about that :-) Nonetheless, I can say that the book can actually help in designing databases using featureful database implementations (so I think the current state of MySQL won't count here yet), or even in creating your own database implementations. -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ Philippine Free Network Group free.net.ph -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
