{"id":1249,"date":"2007-04-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2007-04-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T12:00:00","slug":"a-shameful-attempt-to-accept-a-bribe-of-a-free-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/a-shameful-attempt-to-accept-a-bribe-of-a-free-book\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shameful Attempt to Accept a Bribe of a Free Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this email from Toon Koppelaars yesterday about a book I’d been hearing about for a while.<\/p>\n

Lex de Haan and myself started writing a book entitled “Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals” (AM4DP) at the end of 2005. Finishing this book took a bit longer than anticipated, but I’m relieved that I can finally say that it’s finished (not available, but will be soon). You can find some information about this book here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

To give you an impression on what it’s about, here’s an overview of the chapters. <\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 0: Introduction.
Chapter 1: Logic an Introduction.
Chapter 2: Set Theory an Introduction.
Chapter 3: Some more Logic.
Chapter 4: Some more Set Theory.
Chapter 5: Tables and Database States .
Chapter 6: Data Integrity Predicates.
Chapter 7: Specification of Example Database Design.
Chapter 8: Transition Constraints.
Chapter 9: Data Retrieval.
Chapter 10: Data Manipulation.
Chapter 11: Implementing Database Designs in Oracle.
Chapter 12: Summary and Conclusions. <\/em><\/p>\n

The main theme of this book is about how you can use mathematics (set theory and logic) to formally specify database designs and data integrity constraints: it is based on a book written by Bert de Brock (Foundations of Semantic Databases). The AM4DP book has been rigorously reviewed by Chris Date, Hugh Darwen, Cary Millsap and Frans Remmen.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The manuscript is done, as well as the copy edit. Right now other people are starting to work hard on getting this book to the printers (still takes two months).<\/em><\/p>\n

Actually, I think this advert fits the guidelines of being for something that I’m interested in. I know it’s going to end up at the bottom of a growing pile of unread books, though 🙁<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received this email from Toon Koppelaars yesterday about a book I’d been hearing about for a while. Lex de Haan and myself started writing a book entitled “Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals” (AM4DP) at the end of 2005. Finishing this book took a bit longer than anticipated, but I’m relieved that I can finally… Continue reading A Shameful Attempt to Accept a Bribe of a Free Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1427,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/book-review-oracle-asm\/","url_meta":{"origin":1249,"position":0},"title":"Book Review – Oracle ASM","date":"August 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[Disclaimer - this is a review of a free copy I received from Oracle Press in the UK]Well, it turned out that I had requested the ASM book (or \"Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide\", to give it it's full title) as one to review. 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