http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Relat...29088&sr= 1-1

I know this is a theory group, but at the end of the day the rubber must
meet road.

Evan Keel wrote:

I vaguely remember the cover. I remember being unimpressed by von Halle
on more than one occasion. [Who? Bob? Unimpressed? Say it ain't so! - ed.]

"Evan Keel" <evankeel (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

It must be good. Galaxy Books in the UK want over £130 for a copy!

I don't know why you'd hesitate to refer to a purportedly practical book on
a theory group. Database management is a practical matter. Any so-called
theory of database management that doesn't facilitate the practice would be
nothing but self-indulgent conjecture. Theorists (should) want to know
about what goes on in practice just as much as practitioners should want to
know what theory has to say.

I've never seen the book. The reviews on Amazon are glowing but when it
comes to Amazon reviews I am a cynic so I do wonder if it panders to bad
habits, defective intuitions, and superstition? I hope someone who has
actually seen it will tell us more.

Roy

I just happen to have a copy; the pages are turning yellow on the
outside

Highly prescriptive. It has a series of rules that you apply and
gives pretty good examples, instead of the usual overly-abbreviated
ones you find in text books. It suffers only form being dated in the
SQL used in the text -- DRI actions and other goodies did not exist
back then.

Go to Amazon.com and you can get it for much less. Or trade me a copy
of an English translation of Capek's FACTORY FOR THE ABSOLUTE or my
Grandfather's children's books in Slovak.

"-CELKO-" <jcelko212 (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote

I just happen to have a copy; the pages are turning yellow on the
outside

Highly prescriptive. It has a series of rules that you apply and
gives pretty good examples, instead of the usual overly-abbreviated
ones you find in text books. It suffers only form being dated in the
SQL used in the text -- DRI actions and other goodies did not exist
back then.

Go to Amazon.com and you can get it for much less. Or trade me a copy
of an English translation of Capek's FACTORY FOR THE ABSOLUTE or my
Grandfather's children's books in Slovak.

Ever see Wikipedia's entry on DRI?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara...tial_Integrity

"Evan Keel" <evankeel (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

pretty lame indeed