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Summary: If you want to or have to use SQL, this is the book
Comment: I needed a book to get one started with SQL programming from the basics to professional use of the language. After reading a few books (thanks to our great Public Libraries system), I concluded that this book is the one.
It has the right size (size is important not to scare people off), makes the right assumptions about the reader, gives lots of examples (cases) and it is, mainly, DB agnostic.
Get it and READ it.
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Summary: Excellent Book to Learn SQL Quickly!
Comment: Being an IT Professional i have seen many books till now and this is one of the best books i have seen. Price is not a matter if you get worth of the book and the way the author explains is impressive. Definitely a must have book for SQL Developers.
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Summary: Learning SQL
Comment: Very good book for beginning. Plenty of examples, and explanations.
Plus author writes in very good manner, so you feel like having teacher sitting next to you
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Summary: SQL Beginners start here
Comment: Caution, the book presumes readers understand databases organize data in tables and SQL inserts, updates, queries and deletes the data. If you do understand that but struggle with SQL syntax, this book is a great summary of SQL. It is well organized, clearly written with working examples to get you started quickly.
The book is more or less focused on MySQL and Oracle syntax, which means Itzik Ben-Gan's book on T-SQL is a better alternative for SQL Server folks. Also, advanced non-portable features are not well developed for either MySQL or Oracle.
It is rated 4 because it fails to explain the when and why in some places.
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Summary: my first SQL book
Comment: I have used a variety of SQL applications for over a decade now, and always used the reference documentation from the vendor. That does work just fine, but it left me ignorant of the greater SQL market, tools that the versions I was using didn't have, and better ways of dealing with common problems.
I have never found such an easy to comprehend explanation of the types of joins. I read this book 3 months ago, and just yesterday pulled it off my shelf to write a moderately complex query. I still could have done the job without it, but then I would have had to write 20 more lines of perl code, instead of one well written query.
I am a better SQL DBA having read the book, and its a valuable reference. How much more could I ask?
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