Data Management: Databases & Organizations

by Richard T. Watson

Book Overview

Now in a completely updated and revised Fourth Edition, this book emphasizes the core data management skills needed to succeed in the early 21st-century business environment. The book presents a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471715360
• ISBN13: 9780471715368
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Great Condition

Description said it was used, but they could have sold as being new. Great shape, great condidition.

Great Book!!

I had the good fortune of taking a data management class with Dr. Watson. He uses this book for an MBA level course on data management.He is an excellent teacher with a great sense of humor and it reflects very well in the way this book has been written.Even though I had known SQL well and also bits and pieces of data modeling prior to taking the class, this book put it all together very nicely.Data Modeling is taught from the perspective of a business analyst/manager. It covers virtually any type of business problem you may encounter and I guarantee that you won't find any more complex SQL queries in your real life than the ones this book covers at length. The SQL playbook is simply a great reference!!I would highly recommend it to any business student or executive who has anything to do with data management.

Outstanding Textbook for teaching Data Modeling and SQL

By introducing data modeling and SQL together in gradually increasing level of complexity, this book introduces students to these subjects in an intuitive manner. As a matter of fact, by the time the text covers those two subjects formally in later chapters, most of my students found it almost trivial. And by building on sound data modeling principles through out, the students learn good data modeling habits from the ground up. If I have any complaints, its that when the topic of normalization is covered in a later chapter, my biggest problem is explaining to my students why anyone would have created tables that are not in second or third normal form in the first place!Truly a joy to teach from.

Data modeling and SQL integrated

This is a beautiful, accessible, up to date, patient, didactic, and all in all a very good book. A Dutch teacher of databases since a long time, I never came across quite the right thing for my non-Dutch students until I found this one. Watson is not a computer nerd. He appreciates the fact that data modeling problems are real-world problems. And the fact that modeling and SQL are two sides of the same coin: getting the data IN a database in order to get information FROM it. And that fact that databases operate in an organization, not in a vacuum.

An extremely well written book

The writer undertakes an ambitious tasks but handles it admirably with easy enjoyable reading. The book touches on many areas but provides enough depth for one to gain a reasonable understanding of the important areas of Data Management. I found the section on OODMS particularly helpful since I have just finished a MS course that covers the details of Object Oriented Analysis and Design but did not show how it fitted into the big picture. This book does all that and more. For those needing an introduction to modern Data Management I highly recommend this book.