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Data Management : Databases and Organizations
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Author: Richard T. Watson
List Price: $100.95
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ISBN: 0471347116
Publisher: Wiley Text Books (11 July, 2003)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 934,965
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Great Book!!
I had the good fortune of taking a data management class with Dr. Watson. He uses this book for an MBA level course on data management.He is an excellent teacher with a great sense of humor and it reflects very well in the way this book has been written.Even though I had known SQL well and also bits and pieces of data modeling prior to taking the class, this book put it all together very nicely. Data Modeling is taught from the perspective of a business analyst/manager. It covers virtually any type of business problem you may encounter and I guarantee that you won't find any more complex SQL queries in your real life than the ones this book covers at length. The SQL playbook is simply a great reference!! I would highly recommend it to any business student or executive who has anything to do with data management.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Outstanding Textbook for teaching Data Modeling and SQL
By introducing data modeling and SQL together in gradually increasing level of complexity, this book introduces students to these subjects in an intuitive manner. As a matter of fact, by the time the text covers those two subjects formally in later chapters, most of my students found it almost trivial. And by building on sound data modeling principles through out, the students learn good data modeling habits from the ground up. If I have any complaints, its that when the topic of normalization is covered in a later chapter, my biggest problem is explaining to my students why anyone would have created tables that are not in second or third normal form in the first place! Truly a joy to teach from.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Data modeling and SQL integrated
This is a beautiful, accessible, up to date, patient, didactic, and all in all a very good book. A Dutch teacher of databases since a long time, I never came across quite the right thing for my non-Dutch students until I found this one.
Watson is not a computer nerd. He appreciates the fact that data modeling problems are real-world problems. And the fact that modeling and SQL are two sides of the same coin: getting the data IN a database in order to get information FROM it. And that fact that databases operate in an organization, not in a vacuum.
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