Here is a vote for "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke I learned from this book. I also know a few graduate students who studied database

Here is a vote for "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke I learned from this book. I also know a few graduate students who studied databases (or some varient) and they continued to use this book throughout their studies. (I know nothing of the other book though, so this is a one-sided view)