The Manga Guide to Databases
Since my childhood Manga comics are my favorite, pictorial representation of Manga always help me to remember stories than regular text book stories. It always sticks me on the subject and learning just becomes the fun. It’s the same fact for the book “the manga guide to databases” by No Starch Press.
In this book, lovely princes Ruruna try to find out a way to get rid of duplicated and conflicted data. His friend Cain and Tico - the magical database fairy help her to do it. Princess Ruruna’s fruit selling kingdom was using traditional reporting system to maintain sells records, which was a great headache for her. Here Tico help her to solve the issue with the help of relational database.
The Manga Guide to Databases
In this book you will learn along with Princess Ruruna how database work. Meaning of terms like Schema, key, moralization, transaction, basics of SQL and advances topics like security, indexing, disaster recovery and replication.
This book allows learning in Manga story style, which is divided into six chapters. Each chapter start with manga story related to desire topic and end with a brief about what you should learn. Practice exercises are provided for expand the knowledge you have obtain.
Conclusion:
This a very good book for beginner to start learning databases with fun. This book covers need as well as basics of databases with terms like Schema, key, moralization, transaction, basics of SQL and s topics like security, indexing, disaster recovery and replication.
Book Details:
Title:The Manga Guide to Databases
Authors: Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, and Trend-pro Co., Ltd
Publisher: No Starch Press
Language: English
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN 10: 1-59327-190-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-59327-190-9
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.7 inches
Website: http://nostarch.com/mg_databases.htm
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