[aclug-L] Re: SQL Book

["Koji Hayakawa" <sylf00@xxxxxxxxx>]

I almost submitted my post about how I used MySQL & mSQL book from O'Reilly
as my primer.  But then I thought that MySQL book might not be the best book
in the world, just because of lack of feature on MySQL:  commit/roll-back
transaction, sub-select, etc.  But for real beginners, these subjects
shouldn't matter too much, maybe...

But then again, being poor as I am, I always try to look for some on-line
resources.  If just learning basic syntax for SQL is the main purpose of
buying the book, then there are on-line alternatives as well.  I've read
quite a bit of documentation posted on mysql.com.  postresql.org has pretty
extensive document online as well.  I think these documents contain
"tutorial" section.  They work as the first step primer pretty good.

Once I had the basic down, then I could go to the book store, flip through a
few books, and choose the reference book of my choice:  something that's not
bulky, but covers the syntax etc pretty good.  Since I used MySQL, I chose
MySQL book.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Anne McCadden
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:32 PM
> To: discussion@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: SQL Book
>
>
>
> 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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