Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional by Clare Churcher
Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional Clare Churcher ebook
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Bottom line first: This is a fine book. If you use MS Access on your desktop to maintain a SOHO database this book is for you. If you have ever used MySQL or PostgreSQL on the command line or connected to a database from application code it will be much too basic. Three stars because this book is not what I have come to expect from the Apress 'From Novice to Professional' series: 1) The book is written in a very 'chatty' style which results in a much lower information density than other titles in this series. 2) The book stops miles short of 'Professional'. At best, I'd say it lands the reader at competent, maybe dilettante, most likely charlatan. 3) The underlying technology is treated as an unfortunate complication from which the reader is insulated rather than the subject of the book. 4) The theory is illustrated through best-case examples rather than rigorously defined with boundary cases. I'd say this book should be subtitled "For the Unwilling Accidental DBA" or published in the "For Dummies" series. It's a fine book and with either of those title it would likely end up in the correct hands. A couple of other notes: - The book deals almost exclusively with relational databases. Don't expect a mention of key-value stores or NoSQL (there is a chapter on using relational databases as OO databases). - The book is not RDBMS specific; however, the author's figures, screenshots, and implementation examples are MS Access heavy.
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