"much of what is being written, said or, done about database management is irrelevant, misleading, or outright wrong." – fabian pascal, "practical issues in database management".

although the author breaks with all my beloved ideals and conceptions of "cookbook" approaches to gain programming knowledge, i think it is good to listen to such dogmatic and militant words of a person with expertise from time to time.

thanks to mr tinytalk for this book recommendation.