Customer Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Tool for Developers
Comment: This book is worth it's weight in gold! It will be the SQL reference you pull out when needed. This is great for beginners to learn, and experts to remember. You can't find anything better for the price!
Customer Rating:
Summary: To the point and useful
Comment: Of the 7+ SQL books on my shelf, this little book is the most useful. The author has a great writing style that is easy to follow. He provides plenty of examples and doesn't waste time or pages with tons of extra info just to build the page count. I've learned more useful techniques from this book that any of the other SQL books I own. It's an excellent resource for beginner and intermediate developers and might be a good refresher for some advanced developers.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just gets to the point!
Comment: This is an excellent resource for those looking to learn SQL fast. This book covers all of the *important* aspects of this language without clouding the information with tons of examples that really only sometimes are just for the authors ego. If you need to learn SQL fast this truly is the book for you. I still use it at my desk as a handy reference tool (along with some other books!). Buy this book if you need to learn SQL fast or are just curious about the subject. The price of the book is well worth the information the book contains.
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Summary: Excellent information in immediate format
Comment: As a ColdFusion developer, I'm used to carried around heavy tomes. This particular book is small, easy to read, and cuts directly to information you need to know for basic SQL design. In addition to covering all the basics, Ben Forta points out where syntax differes from one database (Access, Oracle, SQL Server) to another.I recommend it to all my student programmers and co-workers. I also use it as a reference guide. It's a relief to carry a book that doesn't strain my backpack, too!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good book, but pay attention...
Comment: This book is very helpful for me, it's really straight and simple, but there is one thing you should pay attention to. Before I read this book, I've already read several book about ColdFusion, and use cfml to play around with the database. This book doesn't specify any actual language to assist you(like ASP, PHP, or ColdFusion), just focus on the pure SQL, that means you are supposed to being already dealing with one type of database and know one programming language like ASP, PHP or whatever. Otherwise, it's a little bit difficult for you to follow the example in the book to practise.(but you can just read it without practice, still very helpful)Most of all, each chapter is only 5-6 pages, and tell things very clear. I LOVE IT!!!! Hope every programming book is short like that.
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