 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | NO STARCH PRESS | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | MANA TAKHASHI / SHOKO AZUMA | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | WESTERN / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 214 | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 12/01/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 03/01/2009 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
Like its popular predecessor, The Manga Guide to Statistics, the Manga Guide to Databases breaks down otherwise daunting material into an easy to follow format injected with manga fun to help readers and entertain them along the way. Dealing with numbers, math or any kind of calculations can be daunting to the average person. The Manga Guide series helps ease people’s fears and puts otherwise overwhelming information into a step-by-step process that is easy to follow and understandable by any layman. You can never have heard the word database and be able to follow the book and understand the concept with relative ease thanks to the easy to follow process and well broken down steps. The book begins with an explanation of databases; what they are, along with why, when and how they are used. It uses the manga story of a young man trying to help a country in trouble with the help of a fairy and the well intentioned princess that wishes to help save her kingdom…all by figuring out how to use databases. It may sound silly, but the entertaining and decently drawn story helps tone down the intensity of the information and makes it simpler to understand. Databases are helpful to organize information and once a person has grasped the concept and simple steps presented in this guide, they can go on to make their own relational files, applying the entity relationship model to accurately input data, form relational databases using relational operations, and know how to use SQL to update, retrieve and create data reports. Readers will learn about the different types of database models, how to design them, and even how to trouble shoot problems. After going through this guide, a person can not only design databases but also will know how to optimize and operate them efficiently. It does this by taking you through a fundamental step-by-step process that gives the user the necessary basics of each component of the process and then expanding on it bit by bit. The book even has exercises (with answers included to check your work over once you are done) at the end of each chapter to help test your grasp of the information and the procedures outlined in each separate segment. It builds upon this so that by the end, anyone can have a basic ease and confidence managing databases on a fundamental level.
IN SUMMARY:
The Manga Guide to Databases offers an easy to follow process on how to formulate, operate and understand databases. |
