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Title: NOT a good book for beginners
Review: One person calls it a finger, another person, a digit, and still another person insists it is a phalange. What is the problem? They are all the same thing. This sums up chapter 3 through 5 perfectly. The author uses different terms for the same word. We are using this book for our Intro to Database class, and NO ONE is understanding it (there are two sections of this class, and the other section doesn't understand it either). My professor, who builds databases for a living, had to read chapters 3 and 4 about 4 times just to understand what the author was trying to say. I'm not going to say that this is a bad book, I'm just saying that it isn't a good book for beginners. It should be more for graduate-level students. Summary: Hard to understand, and difficult to read.
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