Re: New to Databases-books on databases

Hello

Look at "Data Modeling Essentials" (Modeling spelt with one "l") by Graeme Simsion. This is an excellent book on Data Modelling and it is in it's second edition.

Peter Mount
pamount_at_iprimus.com.au

"Joe Johnson" <joe_at_joe.com> wrote in message news:s7yO6.23467$iC1.814365_at_news6.giganews.com...
> I'm new to databases and am looking for a good book on database concepts,
> principles, theory, etc.
>
> The ones that I have considered so far are:
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> An Introduction to Database Systems-C.J. Date
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> A First Course in Database Systems-Jeffrey Ullman
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> Database System Concepts-Abraham Silberschatz
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> Fundamentals of Database Systems-Ramez Elmasri
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> Conceptual Database Design-Carlo Batini
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> Database Management Systems-Raghu Ramakrishnan
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> I would appreciate any comments on the above books and/or any additional
> suggestions. Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> J.
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Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 18:58:03 CEST