[aclug-L] Re: SQL Book

[Anne McCadden <amccadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The best book that I have seen is SAMS Teach Yourself MySQL.  I have
others also, but this one seems to explain concepts the best.  Most of
the books that I have seen talk about SQL in general.  I wanted a book
that has the focus of open source MySQL on linux.  I hope this helps. 
~Anne

Curtis Hawthorne wrote:
> 
> 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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