Database management systems

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The notes for each day have a list of readings, including papers and readings from two books. The canonical undergrad textbook is "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke. I've often been confused by papers we read and gone to this book for a foundation before jumping back into the paper. There are a _lot_ of chapters I haven't read (namely the first few on ER diagrams, etc.), but the chapters on storage/indexing/query evaluation/transaction management/normalization are good if you read them a few times. The graduate-level book is called "The Red Book" ( http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/ ), and is a great source of foundational papers in the field. You can find most of the papers online, but the introduction gives you a good sense for the history and evolution of databases. I hope this helps!

Here is a vote for "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke I learned from this book. I also know a few graduate students who studied databases (or some varient) and they continued to use this book throughout their studies. (I know nothing of the other book though, so this is a one-sided view)

…sk HN: Help me find a good databases textbook I'm looking for an excellent academic textbook on databases. The following two seem to well thought of (by some, at least): Database Management Systems by Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke An Introduction to Data Base Systems by C.J. Date Are either of these any good? (== accurate, clear, comprehensive, concise, rigourous) Are there any good alternatives?