[aclug-L] Re: SQL Book

["John Alexander" <johnalexander@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excuse the Top Posting:
'SQL Queries for Mere Mortals' by Michael J. Hernandez & John L. Viescas.
Does a pretty good job of teaching you how to your convert your English
language "What cities does my bowling league represent?" kind of statements
into SQL.

'Sam's Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours' by Ryan K. Stephens & Ronald R. Plew.
Kinda Oracle centric - which creates a problem if you are using a MySQL
implementation, since the two implementations use different variable types
(and table constraints, or at least table types, which affect the
constraints that can be used, yadda yadda ad nauseum).

Linux Magazine & Linux Journal - Check 'em out online @linuxmagazine.com &
linuxjournal.com. They have both had articles in recent memory about tying
together web-sites and databases.

devshed.com - click on MySQL or PostgreSQL under server side on the framebar
on the left. Some of the articles are woefully out of date, but they provide
good background information.

ja

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Curtis Hawthorne
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:52 AM
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Subject: [aclug-L] SQL Book



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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