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Title: SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Kevin Kline ISBN: 1-56592-744-3 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Overview,Light on Details
Comment: I have to question whether any of the other reviewers even looked at the table of contents before purchasing this book:
Chapter 1. SQL, Vendor Implementations, and Some History - a general overview of SQL and where it comes from;
Chapter 2. Foundational Concepts - The general theory behind how a sql works;
Chapter 3. SQL Statements Command Reference - "Quick SQL Command Reference";
Chapter 4. SQL Functions - A standard function reference and vendor extensions;
Chapter 5. Unimplemented SQL99 Commands - commands in the sql standard which aren't implemented by vendors (MS, Oracle);
So as to what it says it covers, it does it quite well. Already being quite familiar with SQl, I still found this book to be useful both as a quick reference to commands as well as for a deeper understanding into how SQL works. This book makes an excellent companion to Transact-SQL Programming, also by Oreilly. If you need a complete SQL reference, get Transact-SQL. If you're looking for a background and introduction to SQL, get this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great desktop reference
Comment: There are a lot of books available about using SQL with Relational Database Management Systems.
You can find books that tell you how to do SQL with Oracle, how to do it with MS-SQL, with MySQL and so on, but hardly any of those books tell you when you are using a vendor specific feature, left alone what the SQL Standard would be.
So when switching to another database system one is often suprised how this system thinks SQL should be done.
If you are working with different systems at the same time, you are often left on your own.
Reading the documentation of the one system, comparing it with the documentation of the other system, can cost you a lot of time.
But a nice little book comes to your rescue, SQL in a Nutshell.
What SQL in a Nutshell offers is a reference of all SQL99 Statements and functions. For every statement it shows you what the syntax should be according to the SQL99 Standard and how Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL implement them. How they differ from the standard, if the support a feature, if the support it with variations or if the do not support it at all. By the way, that the vendors stick to the standard is the exception.
True, you could get all these information from reading the standard documents and the vendor manuals, but it is so much easier and faster to have it all right there in a single book as a desktop reference.
So if you are using more than one of the covered database management systems this book will save you a lot of time and is well worth its money.
Rating: 4
Summary: I like this book
Comment: I have always enjoed Klein's books, and this is another fine one from him. It is not product-specific, so if you need that, you will need other books. But the ANSI SQL solutions here are quite good and very useful in many cases. I would think that they would work with most of the DBMS's on the market. The explanations are good and the sample code is quite extensive.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (2nd Edition) by Ben Forta ISBN: 0672321289 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 26 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition) by Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew ISBN: 0672324423 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: SQL Pocket Guide by Jonathan Gennick ISBN: 0596005121 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 29 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL by Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas ISBN: 0201433362 Publisher: Pearson Educational Pub. Date: 21 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by A. Keyton Weissinger ISBN: 1565928431 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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