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Summary: Nicely layed out for quick access
Comment: If you are reading this book to learn, the examples provide easy understanding to the most common SQL statements for both selecting and manipulating data. Its worth trying the examples as a learning tool, and the scripts and populated Microsoft Access database is available from the authors web site (along with a few errata). If your using it as a reference, the nicely layed out contents, pages, and index provide for finding the information quickly. ASP programmers who are writing SQL to access databases for the web will particularly find this a useful guide to constructing the SQL SELECT statements to retrieve data. The book mentions more advanced features such as stored procedures and triggers which will at least give you a taste of things to learn. I suspect that as readers databases grow slower, however they may be searching for more information on indexing and keys.
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Summary: DeFacto standard for beginning SQL
Comment: This is the standard for beginner SQL Server books. It cuts through the verbose theory in other books and gets straight to the syntax and applicability. Many other computer beginner books could learn a lesson from SQL in 10 minutes. The lesson is you don't have to try to cover every nook and cranny and confuse the hell out of people. Beginners are seperate from experts who are seperate from guru's. Speak to them in the language that they understand best. In other words, know your audience!! Ben Forta certainly did in this book. Bravo, Ben!
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Summary: This is a great book...
Comment: This is a great book for SQL beginners. Each chapter is explained very well and the book goes step by step so reader do not get lost. I really like the examples about how syntax differ from SQL Server to ORACLE and some other systems. However, would be nice to have either at the beginning or at the end of the chapters all the tables with their attributes filled in. So, reader will be able to see much clearly the changes from the original tables to the new tables after using the code.
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Summary: Short and Sweet.
Comment: I've always dreaded reading those 1000+ page computer books, so when I had to learn SQL, this book caught my eye. It is short, and gets to the point very fast. Each chapter, about 10 minutes long (As the book's title suggests), has a brief explanation of the code, an example or two, and some more code. I'm very pleased that I have finally found a book that does not assume I am an incapable novice. Of course, the book does not provide a thorough explanation of SQL. However, if you need a brief understanding of it, for something like ColdFusion, this book can't be beaten. The writing style is neat and easy to understand, and the organization of the book is very neat and clean. I wish all computer books could be written like this.
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Summary: Best Intro to SQL
Comment: SQL is not a topic you want to jump headlong into. An intro as concise and comprehensive as SQL in 10 minutes is worth it's weight in Gold. I know, because I read several "developers" SQL books first, and found myself overwhekmed and confused. This book cleared things up and opend my eyes. Thanks Ben Forta!
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