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The Best Databases Books

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   Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practioners

   by C. J. Date
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   Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference for the Thinking Practitioner

   by Fabian Pascal

   Addresses the core recurring issues and problems that even the most experienced database professionals misunderstand. Contents include unstructured data and complex data types, business rules and integrity enforcement, keys, duplicates, redundancy, quota queries, missing information, and more.
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   Introduction to Database Systems, An (8th Edition) (Introduction to Database Systems)

   by C.J. Date
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   Database Management Systems

   by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke
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   Database Systems: The Complete Book

   by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom
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   Logic and Databases: The Roots of Relational Theory

   by C. J. Date

   Explains the logical foundation of the relational model. Five parts: Basic Logic, Logic and Database Management, Logic and Database Design, Logic and Algebra, Logic and the Third Manifesto
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   An Introduction to Database Systems

   by C. J. Date
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   Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals (Expert's Voice)

   by Lex de Haan, Toon Koppelaars

   Databases contain truths or propositions describing some area of interest such as a business. Those truths are organized into sets. Operations from logic and set theory can be applied to existing sets of truths to derive new sets of truths. Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals introduces you to this way of thinking, to the logic and se...