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 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.

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

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.

The title of this book suggests that it is merely the basics; don't be fooled. This book goes far beyond the fundamentals. It is over 1,000 pages of "stuff". It is used for graduate school classes in database design. I won't bore the reader with complex theories and jargon. In short, don't buy this book unless it is required for a school course. This book will only be of use if you are attending graduate school or in search of a PhD.If you are looking to understand how to build tables, define the relationship between tables, how to load data into a database, how to query the database of information, and simply desire a good foundation is the true "fundamentals" of database design then I recommend "The Practical SQL Handbook" by Judith Bowman and it's companion "Practical SQL the Sequel". These books will provide a better and more thorough understanding of the application of database design in terms you can understand and it leaves out the theoretical, discrete math, set theory "stuff".

it was good