Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > An Introduction to Database Systems - Chris Date > > I haven't heard of this one, my "classic" general DB books are > Fundamentals of Database Systems and Introduction to SQL (van der > Lans)
C.J. Date was one of the original RDB guys (E.F. Codd was the original visionary who came up with the concept). He had a hand in developing Ingres. Most (maybe all) of you have probably never used anything as antiquated as a non-relational/non-OO database. They were well on their way out when I first started programming, but I had to maintain some Accounts Receivable data in an old-fashioned hierarchical DB in one of my early jobs. Yuck. :) I have Database System Concepts, by Korth & Silberschatz. It's pretty good, but maybe not a classic. Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan & Plauger was a book I thought a lot of 20 years ago. It's pretty dated now, though. It's also out of print. I have gotten many times my money's worth from all my W. R. Stevens' books. UNIX Network Programming is a true classic. Tanenbaum's Computer Networks also.
