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Title: Not Real Impressed !
Review: The book is very wordy, but vague. It should not take 1200 or so pages to explain it's contents. The book does not readily get to the point. The chapters on SQL were very poorly written. The syntax for commands were not adequately explained and were horribly intertwined in the examples, such that it was difficult to derive the real syntax for individual clauses and commands. Chapters on modeling the database via ER and EER were also vague and written very poorly. Examples throughout the book used coincidental values and scenarios that mask out the true nature of the concepts being proposed. The author should have taken the time to put in "meaningful" examples. The exercises at the end of each chapter do not define the scope of questions being asked. They are too open ended. If it were not a requirement that I use this book, I would not waste my money on it! I could have written a better book!
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