Modern Database Management (9th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Mary Prescott, Heikki Topi
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $166.67
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 60702
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 9
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 736
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0136003915
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.74
EAN: 9780136003915
ASIN: 0136003915
Publication Date: February 29, 2008
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Condition: This is the Instructors Edition. The book is brand new but the top left edge is bent slightly from packaging.
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Product Description
Hoffer focuses on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers. Database analysis, database design, SQL, client/server database environment, data warehousing, data quality and integration, and object-oriented data modeling. Intended for professional development programs in introductory database management.
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Lots of coverage but hard to read June 5, 2008
This review is for the 9th edition.
On the positive side, this book covers a lot of ground and is very thorough. So kudos to the authors for putting together such a large amount of information in this book. Obviously they have a very good understanding of the subject.
However, I did not find the book easy to read, and I'm trying to determine the reason for that. I think it is because the book has been written in a very factual manner, i.e., it seems to narrate facts after facts.
Some of the best books I have read, are in a story telling format where the authors are such masters of the topic that they will lead the reader on a journey. The authors will gently lead the reader to independently arrive at the conclusion that they always intended. And that's when the reader will have a "wow" moment in deeply understanding the subject.
So while this is a good book providing very relevant, practical and recent information in this field, in my opinion, this book is not one of those where you will have that "wow" moment.
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