Title: Adequate, but not great
Product review: I must disagree with the other reviewers. This book was recommended for a undergrad course on DBMS at UC Berkeley. The chapter on relational algebra had lots of good examples, but the book went down hill from there. The SQL examples and problems were trivial and shallow compared to the relational algebra ones. The ESQL section was pretty good, but vendors' on-line reference material made it redundant. While an overview of DBMS implementation was given, it was almost completely useless when we had to write our own DBMS from scratch. The only highlight in this section is a pretty clear example of insertions into a B+ Tree (even though the book calls it a B tree ). All in all I cannot recommend this book.
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