A Good Guideline book for Database systems
could any one tell me what is the best book regarding database systems that covers issues like transaction processing, locks ,database recovery, database design , concurrent control techniques, etc ...
and i need the book to explain the concepts then to explain how are those implemented in oracle databases.
Thanks
I will just add my generalised tuppence-worth:
Anything written by Tom Kyte or Jonathan Lewis is a must.
Most stuff published by O'Reilly probably deserves a look: I know their technical review process is tight and their production qualities are high.
Anything published by Oracle Press needs to be treated with caution. The later books (last year or two) are OK, but much before then is distinctly iffy in terms of technical precision and accuracy.
Practically anything published by Rampant Press should be on your 'desperate and dateless' list. Whilst the material some of their stuff contains is mostly factual, it is also often highly simplistic and equally often just a dry regurgitation of the official documentation with not much by way of explanation or insight offered to supplement it. Their material reads often as if it's written to a deadline rather than to a quality control directive. Grammar is often poor; technical subtleties are often missed or described plain inaccurately; production quality is oftentimes dubious.
None of that makes them evil (deadlines are a fact of life in a commercial environment, after all), but it does mean I would turn to their stuff last and least, if at all.
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