Re: Materials for an Advanced Database course

>> I don't know for sure what you mean by "advanced" ... <<

I am not sure either. But we wil have no trouble getting both IBM and Microsoft software on campus.

>> ... Snodgrass (Developing Time-Oriented Database Systems in SQL) <<

And I'll add my TREES book when it comes out for programming techniques. And I need to do up a set of notes on how to convert procedural code in older languages to pure SQL. Re-writing that code for the "point inside a convex polygon" is a good example.

>> There are plenty of schools that use Date ... <<

I like his stuff and keep copies of everything he has written. My objection is that he editorializes too much. He makes up his own language, he leaves out the stuff about NULLs in SQL because he does not like them, etc. I'd want the kids to get to be SQL programmers and modelers before we start going into the re-design of the DB Universe according to Date. Received on Thu Jan 23 2003 - 17:30:50 CST