Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news.alt.net From: Chris Smith Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A good book Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:06:26 -0600 Organization: Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - www.altopia.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:43133 Bob Badour wrote: > That's a difficult one. I don't know whether I would say Fabian Pascal's > _Practical Issues..._ or Date/Darwen's _TTM_ or maybe one of Date's > earlier _Writings..._ books. > > Perhaps it would be better to just direct him to the EWD archive at utexas. So far as I'm aware, Edgar Dijkstra did not do significant work in the area of relational database theory. I understand that you like his approaches to things, and I share much of your appreciation for Dijkstra's work... but I'm looking for something a little more specific here. I will look into the books you mentioned beforehand, and see what other opinions I can find to distinguish between them. Thanks. -- Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer MindIQ Corporation