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!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Bob Badour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Books References: <1155020920.288842.104440@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1155020920.288842.104440@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:36:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.115.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1155040593 142.176.115.34 (Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:36:33 ADT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:36:33 ADT Organization: Sympatico-Subscriber Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:44066 Paolo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for some books on database design and theory and was > looking for some suggestions. I have been dabbling with a database for > just a couple of months now and have quickly come to realize how > necessary it is to have some sort of a foundation. So I'm looking for > some introductory texts. > > Thanks, > > paolo@NOSPAMcornacchia.net Hmmmm... that's a tough question to answer these days. At one time, I would have recommended Fabian Pascal's second-last book in a heartbeat. His last book, _Practical Issues..._ is excellent and very enlightening. Date's _Introduction to Database Systems_ is a comprehensive book and arguably the definitive text. It might be helpful to know what your overall goals are and what your existing background is. You mention that you have dabbled with a database, but what do you want to do when you move beyond dabbling?