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Book:   Learning SQL
Subject:   Good book if you are planning to learn SQL fast
Date:   2006-12-05 22:01:17
From:   Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

The O'Reilly catalogue will have (and it does have) better books on various aspects of SQL and especially MySQL related books. This book is adequate if you want to learn the basics of SQL and have a building tool (like the one RT provides) handy. Good examples although they could have been more real-life are amply spaced throughout the book. What it lacks is the coherence in terms of the topics. Instead of slowly building up SQL skills and then concentrating solely on Tasks, it attempts to teach all of SQL and that dilutes the content a bit.


Nevertheless, good book to have and read if you are stuck with a particularly nasty SQL statement structure.


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