[aclug-L] SQL Book

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm looking at buying a book about SQL and databases and
was wondering if anyone could recommend any.  I've written
several Perl programs that work with an SQL database but
have mostly been learning how to do things as I need to,
not really knowing why a command does what it does or all
the details about it.

I would like a book that has a fairly comprehensive
overview of SQL and good database design practices.  I
would also like it to be, for the most part, standards
compliant and not focus on a particular vendor's extensions
so that my programs will work with most databases.

So far, the best book that I have been able to find is
Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861005156/qid=1014741720/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0493938-4166436).
 Anyone have any comments about this book or
recommendations for others?

Thanks!

Curtis H.

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