Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.germany.com!postnews.google.com!m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Alvin Ryder" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A good book Date: 7 Jul 2006 06:04:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Message-ID: <1152277472.802275.84030@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.228.140.209 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1152277477 29196 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2006 13:04:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:04:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.228.140.209; posting-account=Q6zenQwAAACTLszTAX9a84SDKtanhrXR Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:43153 Chris Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say you met someone who has a strong mathematical background, a > long history of development of mainly business application software, a > perfectly fine understanding of writing SQL queries in practical > settings. This person understands that OO languages are somewhat > arbitrary, but not particularly convinced that they are evil. > Similarly, he is not convinced of the need for writing significant > amounts of code in declarative style, nor that the existence of a simple > formal mathematical model behind relational databases is necessarily > exploitable to produce better software. Let's further say that you > could get said person to read one book. What would it be? > > (Yes, this is somewhat autobiographical...) > > -- > Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer > MindIQ Corporation I can highly recommend Christ Date's "Database in Depth" (practical theory or some such thing). I also agree with Bob's suggestion about Date's "Writings books ..." They are pretty good too but if limited to just one book then I reckon DiD is it. Of course "The Third Manifesto" is a must read but I think it maybe futuristic? Dunno, haven't read that one ... (yet). Nah, I'd go with DiD. Cheers.