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Title: SQL Fundamentals (2nd Edition) by John J. Patrick ISBN: 0-13-066947-4 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Me say: Editing BAD, Content GOOD!
Comment: I bought this book to cram for a job interview; although I've spent some time as an Access developer (read: power user), I've never really spent that much time looking at SQL as a language. I bought this book because it focused on Access and Oracle.

I really like the format of this book, because it does read like a workbook. The author introduces a topic, provides some examples, and then gives you some exercises. The code is available on a CD-ROM (which is nice if you're trying to cram a lot of information in a very tight time frame).

However, the editing is horrible, and it can detract from the learning. One example is the note from the editor to the author that was mistakenly left in the manuscript (whoops!) on page 347.

Overall, it is a handy workbook/reference, and should probably stay on your shelf.

Rating: 4
Summary: Good writing; terrible editing
Comment: This is a fine, fast introduction to SQL. The writing is clear and concise. The book is very well organized focusing on practical SQL and giving examples in SQL's two major dialects. The examples are well thought out; the sample code works. The diagrams showing how data is changed by a command are very helpful.

The book might have been a good reference - an Oracle-Access Rosetta stone - but the index suffers from the same careless editing as the rest of the book - e.g., the column or page containing references to the letter "J" is missing.

Why the author's preface thanks the publisher is beyond me. His book deserved better treatment than this. Nevertheless, I still recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn SQL in a hurry.

Rating: 5
Summary: Unique
Comment: This book has a unique approach by mirroring concepts between Microsoft Access SQL and Oracle SQL so you can understand the differences between them as well as how to adapt your coding to work in both. Because of how involved this can get, it may be more suited to intermediate and advanced programmers rather than beginners. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all the code from the book.

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