|  | Author: Mana Takahashi
Creators: Shoko Azuma, Trend-pro Co. Ltd.
Publisher: No Starch Press
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Edition: Ill
Pages: 213
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1593271905
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
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 "Illustrated" Database Guide March 5, 2009
John Jacobson (Riverside CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The irrepressible Japanese Manga is back, this time talking about databases. The series uses the genre of Japanese cartoons to teach serious topics in science and technology.
Others have mentioned the concern about the audience. If database design were taught in high school, this might be an appropriate text. It does deal with the important issues of database design and development, including three main types of databases, hierarchical, network, and relational, and goes on to focus on the relational model. It gives significant detail on the importance of normalizing a database, an issue which many neophyte developers find daunting. It goes on to give examples of SQL use, an introduction to bullet-proofing transactions, sharing loads on more than one server, object oriented databases, and web based databases.
There are questions at the end of each chapter; the questions are pertinent, but relatively few. There is also a brief index on the back cover.
I would use this book to introduce the young student to database design and development issues. There are insufficient examples to allow this to be used as serious text, but perhaps that was not its main purpose. Is it just me, or would this book and type of presentation appeal more to young women than young men?
Cute Book But Unclear Audience February 23, 2009
Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
'The Manga Guide to Databases' is a nice intro book for anyone that is new to databases and wants a DIFFERENT way of learning the basics. The key word here is different and in this case I am not sure if that is a good thing or not. The Manga guides take concepts and present them in a cutesy anime way. I feel that the approach probably works well in Japan but I am not sure how much of a market there is for this in the USA. There are other books that teach subjects in a different way such as the 'Head First' line. I guess this is one of those cases where you dilute the market with a whole bunch of different ways to get concepts out to people and some stick better than others. This book certainly presents the ideas that you would want any database newbie to know but its a very select group.
If you are into manga/anime and are a computer person this is probably right up your alley. The writing is good and the artwork is very good. My only concern is I don't know if there is enough of a client base long term.
**** RECOMMENDED
 Great Fun & Instruction in Database Concepts February 19, 2009
Ira Laefsky (Philadelphia, PA)
This Manga series makes excellent use of a unique concept in pedagogy. The Manga/comic is used to instruct in general concepts in a fun and clear manner, but unlike other series of cartoon guides to technical subjects,which stretch the comic method too far; examples that require a detailed solution, or which offer a problem to guide the student are offered as callouts from the text. This is a most excellent guide to database technology and I wish I had it in my course on Relational Databases in graduate school. Basic concepts like why a database, rather than a file structure in an application program, why the relational model, and what is a Normal Form are all intelligently and gently explained in the story. Advanced concepts such as Atomicity, Record Locking, Concurrency and Distributed Database Architectures are covered as well much material not typically given in elementary courses. An introduction is offered to SQL notation and queries although this is not an SQL instructory text.
An Excellent and Fun introduction to Database Technology.
--Ira Laefsky
A cute introduction February 12, 2009
Aspi Havewala (Chicago, IL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
All in all, TMGD is a fun way to learn about databases and core concepts, but it'll require a few leaps of faith.
Probably use this in an intro college class January 18, 2009
Joe Celko (Austin, TX)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I will probably use this in an intro college database class. It is hard to find a book that hits all of the basics of Relational Databases in a quick, short, easy to read format. Manga is cool enough that nerd should be embarrassed to be seen with it -- compete with Japanese DB fairies in the Land of Kod.
This is not an SQL book, even tho it has a section the language so the reader can try some simple queries. But I after writing eight books on SQL myself and teaching the language for 20+ years , I have found that programmers still miss the basic concepts of the Relational Model. You can see it in the same errors repeated year after year in Newsgroup postings. Maybe this will help.
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