Fundamentals of Database Systems

Very comprehensive learning. Easy to follow.

Had a bad professor. Textbook was written easy enough to read and understand and teach myself. Got an A in the course for a class I often skipped.

I can't understand the topic, but the book is well written

I used for a short 9-week course online. Setup like the textbooks I would use in high school. I graduated in 2011. Boring, yet thorough information. I feel I retained the most information from that class. On how databases organize data.

Good book to study database and MySQL

Read the other reviews that are one star they are spot on. This book is the worst book I've ever been required to read. I am writing this while looking for another textbook so that I can teach to myself. * It assumes zero programming experience. * It is being used in classes with programming experience. * It mashes together information and examples. * It is near impossible to skim for information you do not know. * It is extremely useless as a reference. * It is extremely verbose. * It isn't organized it repeats definitions many times. Waste of money along with a waste of time when in a waste of a class. It is insane to me that this is the 7th edition of a textbook the way that it reads. If I were looking to make money writing a textbook, replacing something like this would be a safe bet.

There's not much to add outside of what the headline explanations. For pros, I can definitely give the book ample credit on the extent to which it explains a variety of concepts and applications of database systems. For cons, the way it goes about conveying that information is often wordy beyond what is remotely necessarily, and oftentimes there are half-page long asides that really don't matter much in terms of the overarching concept of that section. Another issue which is more prevalent in the earlier sections is that the same database schema is often referred to in examples when in the case of those who are fresh learners, multiple different examples would be beneficial, particularly to show the wide variety of applications to which databases could be applied. My professor largely teaches from the book, so if you find yourself in a similar boat it shouldn't be hard at all to get through the class, especially if you end up having an affinity for databases.

it was good

Got this for a university course. By far the worst CS textbook I've ever had (4th year student). The information is there, but the order for some topics is odd, and no (noticeable) effort has been made to make the writing readable. It is a very boring and monotonous read.