Relational database articles

There are many good books on relational database management system (RDBMS) products. Instead of creating online articles, several books are suggested.

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Database Design for Mere Mortals(R): A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design (2nd Edition)
by Michael J. Hernandez
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 123 reviews.
Customer Review: This book was just the text I was looking for as a n00b data base designer looking to build a data base for a pet project of mine. I'm a forester and forest planner, not a computer specialist. Thus, I needed instruction from the ground up, and this book fit the bill. Some specific praise: First, the book bridged the gap between adm...

Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Terry Halpin, Tony Morgan
Average Customer Review: 5 stars based on 5 reviews.
Customer Review: Everyone needs this book. Read more to find out why: If you intend to create genuinely useful business applications without first creating an accurate conceptual data model and deriving the database schema from the model, then I hope your projects have very large budgets and flexible deadlines, because you'll need both. Accurate conc...

Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners
by C.J. Date
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 19 reviews.
Customer Review: When I was early in my Computer Science degree I took a course in which we discussed database fundamentals. In that class we learned about things like tuples, relations, predicates, predicate logic and deductive proofs. All of these were involved with the relational model, but it wasn't until later when I discovered the writings of ...

Logic and Databases: The Roots of Relational Theory
by C. J. Date
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication Date: June 2007

The Relational Model for Database Management: Version 2
by E. F. Codd
Average Customer Review: 4 stars based on 1 review.
Customer Review: Dr. Codd, an IBM researcher, first developed the relational data model in 1970 (eg., A relational model of data for large shared data banks: 1970 Communications of the ACM Vol 136:377-387) and spawned a whole industry. In this 1990 book, Codd introduces "Version 2", where he collects a number of his ideas and extends his model. This b...

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