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Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours by Ronald R. Plew, Ryan K. Stephens ISBN: 0-672-31245-X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 19 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 (25 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Well written, but too Oracle specific
Comment: Enjoyed this book, and the lessons are very straight-forward, but the majority of the code supplied is pretty Oracle-specific. I had a devil of a time getting the code to work in a Microsoft environment (SQL Server or Access 97).
As a beginner, I actually found Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta to be a better book. Forta provides notes on what will and won't work in what programs.
Overall, this book was helpful, and it will probably remain a useful reference edition. But if I were going to choose again, I'd get the 10 minute version first.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent way to learn SQL
Comment: Having been babied by Access for years, I knew that I needed to get more into SQL itself if I wanted to successfully move to SQL Server or any other platform. This book was easy to use, has a good index (which seems rare in computer books these days) and hits all the important points about SQL that you need to know.
The process is step-by-step, and the steps are logically organized. It provides information about multiple platforms, including syntax for Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle, where necessary. Its nice to see a book that's not product-centered.
There's also an excellent quick reference at the back of the book that I have permanently bookmarked and refer to it constantly when I need reminding about syntax.
Haven't found a better SQL book yet, and this one is the go-to SQL book for our team.
Rating: 1
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Comment: I came to this book with a very basic working knowledge of SQL, hoping to round out my knowledge of more complex operations and get a better grasp of transactional operations. I came away with little more than I started with.
The authors take such a broad approach, attempting to do the impossible - teach readers how to use ANSI-compliant SQL. Problem is, no RDBMS (Database platform) is truly ANSI-compliant. When it gets specific it's generally to show how MySQL does not do what Oracle does, yet for some strange reason they instruct the reader to use MySQL for exercises. Even funnier, something like 20% of the exercises cannot be done on MySQL, so they actually suggest that you get out a piece of paper and write them out! Why not just write a book called "Oracle SQL" and offer some comparisons with other implementations? The "see your implementation documentation for details" disclaimer occurs 2-3 times per chapter. So, why am I reading this again? Why not just read my RDBMS help files?
In the same vein, the data provided to learn with is exemplary of "toy" code, with tables of 5-10 records each. Most chapters consist of run-downs of the various functions, sometimes with good examples, often without.
The typos are rampant, with whole blocks of text sometimes being misplaced. Even the source data contains egregious errors. Obviously, this book was slammed out (in "24 hours" I bet), was not proofread, and forgotten. Third edition?!? Was the first edition just a bunch of garbled text??
I could go on, but in summary, don't bother. Buy something else. Anything else. Most likely either a book aimed at a particular implementation (e.g. MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgresSQL etc), or one of the many books aimed at giving a working knowledge of SQL for web development (e.g. PHP and MySQL Web Development, etc). Good luck.
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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: SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Kevin Kline ISBN: 1565927443 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking (3rd Edition) by Joseph Habraken ISBN: 0789725452 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 13 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design, Second Edition by Michael J. Hernandez ISBN: 0201752840 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: 10 Minute Guide to Microsoft(R) Access 2002 by Joe Habraken ISBN: 0789726319 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 20 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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