Customer Review: I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who has the patience and endurance to get through it. It is definately NOT easy reading. The material is extremely condensed with little or no redundancy, but it is the most complete and acurate technical book I have ever read. The excercises are great as... more info
Customer Review: I think some of the other reviewers might forget this book is at the time of this review writing is 5 years old. At the time of .NET's official non beta release it was just over 3 years old. Truly, this book is as relevant today as it was when it was written. Perhaps some of the concepts of... more info
Customer Review: Less than half of this book really deals with what the title suggests. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are the only things of value to someone already familiar with the UML. The previous chapters try to give the database designer an overview of using UML for all project aspects; however, this is done much more... more info
Customer Review: Try Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterpise Application Architecture.
It has much better coverage in more useful context.
Also you can look at Hibernate or iBatis project for real application
of these patterns.
Customer Review: "Object Oriented Database Design" is a book for beginners and,
as far as I have been able to investigate, it is a perfect walkthrough along the background of object structures.
Figures, exemples, syntax of codes and clear explanations
lead the learner through theory towards... more info
Customer Review: First I like this book. It is intelligent and sound. Well done in every respect.
Just a WARNING: the title is somewhat misleading. The focus is on the OSM model and design methodology. The database examples at the end are treated only in an extremely thin way.
Customer Review: It really is a manifesto. The authors tell us how database software has strayed from the one true theory and how everything would be so much better if databases were designed with theoretical elegance as the highest priority. Since this unlikely to happen any time soon, the book isn't of immediate... more info