Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

This is my first Amazon review. Most of the time I wouldn't even bother thinking about writing a review but this book is different.

(This review refers to the on-line version of the book, as distributed by the author) Hardly an easy read and quite long, but very much worth the trouble to read end-to-end. I actually wished it were longer, since some aspects are bypassed entirely (e.

I enjoyed reading this book more than most technical books, because the author maintains a very pleasant style and adds interesting anecdotes. It isn't presented as a theoretical book, but presents the basic issues with case studies and a review of SQL3 proposed extensions.