Re: So what's on YOUR bookshelf?

Hi,
to me, all the books from C.J.Date are excellent even if I do not neccesarly agree with some of his arguments.

I would just mention two of them:
C.J.Date: "An Intruduction to Database Systems", 8th Edition, Addison Wesley, 2004
C.J.Date: "Databases in Depth", O'Reilly, 2005

for me the titles of those books should be interchanged. The first one has about 1000 pages and the second just 200 pages. I recommend the second one to everyone because Date succeed to say everything important about the RM in just 200 pages. To me, this should be the starter book to RM. The first book is of course legendary ... but it's 1000 pages.

I have not read any edition of TTM but would like ... What do you think: is the approach of the 3rd edition (Date and Darwen: "Databases, Types and the Relational Model") better than the style of the 2nd edition?

Greetings from Croatia,
Drago

"Chris Edwards" <cme_at_ihug.co.nz> wrote in message news:etiba0$46l$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
> On 2007-03-18 09:44, Walt wrote:
>> I took a quick peek on my bookshelf, the one that has to do with
>> computing.
>
> Date and Darwen: "Databases, Types and the Relational Model"
> Brooks: "Mythical Man-Month"
>
> Actually, neither one is on my bookshelf, as I keep taking them out and
> reading them!
>
> Anyone have Abelson and Sussman: "Structure and Interpretation of
> Computer Programs"? Would you recommend? I'm also interested in
> picking up something on functional programming, perhaps with a view to
> learning Haskell or Erlang.
> --
> Chris
Received on Sun Mar 18 2007 - 09:23:32 CET