Top Database books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of Database

Understanding the concepts of Database starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Database Systems: The Complete Book

Database Systems: The Complete Book

For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. ...

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Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design

Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design

The #1 Easy, Commonsense Guide to Database Design! Michael J. Hernandez’s best-selling Database Design for Mere Mortals® has earned worldwide respect as the clearest, simplest way to learn relational database design. ...

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. ...

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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

How does MongoDB help you manage a huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application? With this authoritative introduction, you'll learn the many advantages of using document-oriented ...

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Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference for the Thinking Practitioner

Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference for the Thinking Practitioner

Databas(e)ics clearly explains the key concepts users and database professionals need to understand in order to build well-designed databases that answer business questions accurately and efficiently. ...

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Database System Concepts

Database System Concepts

Presents the fundamental concepts of database management. This text is suitable for a first course in databases at the junior/senior undergraduate level or the first year graduate level.

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Additional Database Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Database, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

Database Internals: A Deep Dive Into How Distributed Data Systems Work

Database Internals: A Deep Dive Into How Distributed Data Systems Work

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it’s often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. ...

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Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition

Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition

Michael J. Hernandez's best-selling Database Design for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide respect as the simplest way to learn relational database design. Now, he has made this hands-on, software independent tutorial even clearer and easier to use. ...

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NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence

NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence

The need to handle increasingly larger data volumes is one factor driving the adoption of a new class of nonrelational "NoSQL" databases. Advocates of NoSQL databases claim they can be used to build systems that are more performant, scale better, and are easier to program. ...

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SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. ...

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Readings in Database Systems

Readings in Database Systems

In this collection of articles, the breadth of database research and applications is represented. Many of the forty articles are sourced from out-of-print or limited circulation journals, and technical ...

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