- Hardcover: 624 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.; 4th Edition edition (Jun 19 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471347116
- ISBN-13: 978-0471347118
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,019,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Text emphasizes data management skills needed to enter the workforce. Provides full coverage of data modeling and SQL. Includes a new chapter on future directions, including u-commerce; an XML chapter revised to include data schemas; new material on data integration and data quality; and new material on spatial and temporal databases. For undergraduate students. Previous ed: c2001.
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Get the data management skills that are in demand! Today's organizations are seeking graduates who can design and create relational databases, formulate complex SQL queries, understand database architectures and their managerial implications, and keep up with the latest information technologies and database developments. That's why Richard Watson's 4th Edition of Data Management: Databases and Organizations emphasizes the core data management skills you'll need as you enter the workforce. Featuring in-depth, fully integrated coverage of data modeling and SQL, and a broad managerial perspective, the text throughly prepares you for the real world of data management. New Features of the 4th Edition: New chapter on future directions, including u-commerce Chapter on XML revised to include data schemas Additional coverage of SQL-99, including GROUP BY extensions, SQL routines (stored procedures and functions), and triggers New material on data integration and data quality New Material on spatial and temporal databases Skill builders embedded within each chapter that encourage you to practice what you've just learned All SQL code rewritten to improve readibility and syntax learning.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good for a few lines on the resume,
By A Customer
This review is from: Data Management: Databases and Organizations, 4th Edition (Hardcover)
I have two sets of comments - one for students and one for professors.Students first... Watson focuses primarily on the practical aspects of SQL in an organizational database environment. However, database theory is also taught fairly well through the many examples offered in the text. Students will have ample opportunity to hone their hands-on skills, and as such, should be confident enough to put a line on their resume for SQL/ Database skills by the time the course is over. Although the publisher's website offers little support beyond lecture slides, the author's personal website does offer more in this regard. Now for professors... The book is organized well and is thorough in its coverage of SQL and organizational database applications. I don't think I have seen a better text for teaching SQL that wasn't explicitly an SQL text. For my part, though, I prefer a deductive approach to teaching database theory rather than the inductive approach preferred by the text. Also, I would have preferred some more support materials for instructors, such as an instructor CD with testbanks, cases, SQL code examples from the text and problems, etc. Although the author's personal website carries ample support materials, it would be nice to have a CD bundled with the text. The one glaring omission in the instructor support materials was that there doesn't seem to be a testbank available for this text!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Data Management: Databases and Organizations, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
I had the good fortune of taking a data management class with Dr. Watson. He uses this book for an MBA level course on data management.He is an excellent teacher with a great sense of humor and it reflects very well in the way this book has been written.Even though I had known SQL well and also bits and pieces of data modeling prior to taking the class, this book put it all together very nicely. Data Modeling is taught from the perspective of a business analyst/manager. It covers virtually any type of business problem you may encounter and I guarantee that you won't find any more complex SQL queries in your real life than the ones this book covers at length. The SQL playbook is simply a great reference!! I would highly recommend it to any business student or executive who has anything to do with data management.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding Textbook for teaching Data Modeling and SQL,
By Jim Woolley (Moline, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Data Management: Databases and Organizations, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
By introducing data modeling and SQL together in gradually increasing level of complexity, this book introduces students to these subjects in an intuitive manner. As a matter of fact, by the time the text covers those two subjects formally in later chapters, most of my students found it almost trivial. And by building on sound data modeling principles through out, the students learn good data modeling habits from the ground up. If I have any complaints, its that when the topic of normalization is covered in a later chapter, my biggest problem is explaining to my students why anyone would have created tables that are not in second or third normal form in the first place! Truly a joy to teach from.
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