Fundamentals of Database Systems 7th Edition

Had a bad professor. Textbook was written easy enough to read and understand and teach myself. Got an A in the course for a class I often skipped.

I can't understand the topic, but the book is well written

Good book to study database and MySQL

I used for a short 9-week course online. Setup like the textbooks I would use in high school. I graduated in 2011. Boring, yet thorough information. I feel I retained the most information from that class. On how databases organize data.

Read the other reviews that are one star they are spot on.This book is the worst book I've ever been required to read. I am writing this while looking for another textbook so that I can teach to myself.* It assumes zero programming experience.* It is being used in classes with programming experience.* It mashes together information and examples.* It is near impossible to skim for information you do not know.* It is extremely useless as a reference.* It is extremely verbose.* It isn't organized it repeats definitions many times.Waste of money along with a waste of time when in a waste of a class.It is insane to me that this is the 7th edition of a textbook the way that it reads.If I were looking to make money writing a textbook, replacing something like this would be a safe bet.

it was good

I had to get this book because my professor was Indian and was likely not using the traditional USA database book which is "Database Systems".This is NOT the traditional database applications book in the USA.If you go to grad school you may end up using a different book.The English in the book is choppy and clearly ESL English. There are some grammatical mistakes sprinkled throughout the book but it mainly contains a lot of superfluous English to anyone who is a native speaker.

Good job

Got this for a university course. By far the worst CS textbook I've ever had (4th year student). The information is there, but the order for some topics is odd, and no (noticeable) effort has been made to make the writing readable. It is a very boring and monotonous read.