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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:43:50 -0600
From: Douglas Trainor <trainor@uic.edu>
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Subject: Re: SQL books
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Ignoring what happened in the 1990s, you might try finding a cheap/used
copy of "The Ingres Papers: Anatomy of a Relational Database System".
It was put out by by Addison-Wesley in the mid-1980s and was edited by
Professor Michael Stonebraker.  You can find hardcover editions on the
web for $10 or so.  It covers the fundamental stuff.  I have the
paperback edition.  A few of the papers are worth the price of
admission alone!

Sounds like you are more interested in the inner-workings of database
systems and not looking for a "SQL book".  Some of the books in the
rubric of "data structures" have pertinent material as well.

    douglas

Juan Fern=E1ndez wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Aside from Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, that I already have, what=20
> other books can you reccomend me? I'm searching for a book that=20
> describes most of the heaviest database problems and its solutions.=20
> Can be about PostgreSQL or other databases, what I'm looking for is=20
> the algorithmic of databases.