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By: Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:03:25 +0000

Bunditj, I wrote a review on the UK Amazon site that addresses that specific issue.

By: Bunditj

Bunditj — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:37:57 +0000

Jonathan,

I just scan roughly the chapter 11 indexes and reorganization of this book, relational database index design and the optimizers. They summarized a debate on index reorganization by claiming Don Burleson. I would like to know what and how do you think ?

Thank you very much

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By: lascoltodelvenerdi

lascoltodelvenerdi — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:47:17 +0000

@Toon Koppelaars

:lol:

By: Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:37:47 +0000

Sean, When I created the review on the UK Amazon, one of the conditions was that I had purchased something from them – so I assumed it was the same on the US site. I’ll have to check when I get home.

By: Toon Koppelaars

Toon Koppelaars — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:47:56 +0000

@lascoltodelvenerdi

It’s hard, yes, the cover is… ;-)
Glad you enjoyed it.

By: SeánMacGC

SeánMacGC — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:10:12 +0000

“For American readers, the Amazon.com links (without my reviews, of course, but with reviews from other readers) are: Applied Mathematics, and Indexing.”

I would leave it at both Jonathan (especially with the increased orders from this side of the Pond with the weak USD), provided the books are identical, respectively. Neither Amazon site has a purchase with that particular outlet as a pre-condition for submitting a review.

By: lascoltodelvenerdi

lascoltodelvenerdi — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:48:47 +0000

Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals, is an interesting and hard book (hard…perhaps I’m not so good at mathematics…)

But if you have time to read it carefully, it’s a definitive “Thumbs up!”.

Bye.

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:39:13 +0000

Summary: Some people will find the symbolic logic heavy going, but everyone who has to deal with designing or coding an Oracle database ought to read chapter 11 and do their best to read chapter 7.

That sounds like a plan!