Date on Database Writings 2000-2006 [Paperback]

C. J. Date is one of the founding fathers of the relational database field. Many of todays seasoned database professionals grew up on Dates writings. Those same professionals, along with other serious database students and practitioners, form the core audience for Dates ongoing writing efforts. Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006 is a compilation of Dates most significant articles and papers over the past seven years. It gives readers a one-stop place in which to find Dates latest thinking on relational technology. Many papers are not easily found outside this book.

Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006 collects C. J. Dates most significant articles and papers over the past seven years. It gives readers a one-stop place in which to find Dates latest thinking on relational technology. Many papers are not easily found outside this book.

Date on Database: Writings 2000 2006 captures some of the freshest thinking from widely known and respected relational database pioneer C. J. Date. Known for his tenacious defense of relational theory in its purest form, Date tackles many topics that are important to database professionals, including the difference between model and implementation, data integrity, data redundancy, deviations in SQL from the relational model, and much more.

Date clearly and patiently explains where many of todays products and practices go wrong, and illustrates some of the trouble you can get into if you don’t carefully think through your use of current database technology. In almost every field of endeavor, the writings of the founders and early leaders have had a profound effect. And now is your chance to read Date while his material is fresh and the field is still young. You’ll want to read this book because it:

• Provides C. J. Date's freshest thinking on relational theory versus currenl³r