Opinions of books by Garcia-Molina, Ullman, Widom

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From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
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Subject: Opinions of books by Garcia-Molina, Ullman, Widom
Date: 2006-12-02 20:53:17
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What do people think about the books by Garcia-Molina, Ullman, and
Widom, in particular _Database Systems: The Complete Book_ (a
combination of two earlier books)? Amazon reviews are mixed. Is
this book worthwhile for learning about database implementation?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130319953/
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html

Thanks.

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Michael Fuhr


From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: Opinions of books by Garcia-Molina, Ullman, Widom
Date: 2006-12-02 21:04:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0612030004140.16338@sn.sai.msu.ru
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I have russian translation and found it's very useful.

Oleg
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> What do people think about the books by Garcia-Molina, Ullman, and
> Widom, in particular _Database Systems: The Complete Book_ (a
> combination of two earlier books)? Amazon reviews are mixed. Is
> this book worthwhile for learning about database implementation?
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130319953/
> http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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