“Recognition” of Relational
Technology
On the face of it, the non-technical
world has finally acknowledged the value of relational technology, but nevertheless
they got even that wrong, and quite predictably so. See if you can figure it
out:
85 Innovations
1959-1971, Forbes (scroll down)
FBI
Leaves the Cold War (paragraph preceding the last)
“Review” of My Book
The following “review” of my book by Jeff
Unsal, Long Island NY at Amazon does not merit comment. Typical product of the
industry.
“No disrespect to
this gentleman Fabian Pascal, he might be a nice guy, but he probably needed
some quick cash badly enough that he put this book together by using C.J.
Date's name and made some quick bucks. I purchased so many books from Amazon
Books and never had to write a bad review about any book because almost all of
the books I got were professionally written books. I just waisted [sic] good (money) plus
shipping and handling on this book. I started to belive [sic] either the
authors are writing these reviews themselves or paying people to write a good
review about their books. I consider myself very computer literate but I had no
idea what this guy was talking about and the book shows the tables and graphics
as a pictorial diagrams like a young kid put together. Maybe I am being rude,
but I do not want anybody else to waist [sic] their money on books like this one. If
anybody does not believe me go ahead buy the book and see it for themselves [sic].
I
was thinking of buying C.J. Date's book "Introduction to Database Systems,
Volume 1 (Addison-Wesley Publishing)" but now I am not really sure about
that, because the book is ... dollars [sic] and this author took all his references
from Date's books, and Mr. Date actually wrote a foreword about this guy.
I
just read Mark Whitehorn's "Inside Relational Databases" book and it
was excellent, but the book was too short did not get into advance [sic] topics. I was in
search of something with same quality but in little more details and some more
real life samples in them. But unfortunatelly [sic] crossed this horrible one on the quest
for good [sic]
database book.
I
will appreciate anyone's honest recommendation about a good database book that
explaines [sic]
the RDBMS ins and outs without trying to sound like a genious [sic] wrote the book.”
Posted
02/07/03
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