I learned SQL from Sam's "Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days", and am happy to
recommend it. Which book is "best" is very subjective and situation
dependent; all I can say is that this one did the job for me.
Pros: clearly written; knowledgable authors; good coverage
Cons: all due to space limitations. Many advanced features are touched on,
without any really useful explanation of how to use them or even why they
exist. Can be a good starting point though (The pl/pgsql docs made no sense
at all to me, until I had read the Oracle pl/sql coverage in this book).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>; "Josh Berkus"
<josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: 2 tables, joins and same name...
> Ross,
>
> > Have you seen "Database Design for Mere Mortals" by Michael
> > Hernandez?
>
> Yeah, that's one I've been loaning out a lot. However, while it does
> cover a lot of good stuff about how to design a database, it never gets
> past the most elementary SQL ... really, no further than Bruce gets.
> And if I recommend Hernandez together with "SQL for Smarties", well,
> that's over 600 pages combined ...
>
> What I'd really love to see, I guess, would be a 200 page "Elements of
> SQL" book organized into "lessons" for the beginner. Maybe with an
> additional 75 pages of Q&A examples at the back.
>
> Maybe I should write one.
>
> > And there's another one, that I can only remember as 'the pink book',
> > I can never remember the title! that struck me as a reasonably good
> > intro to intermediate level book.
>
> Oh, that'll make me friends at Stacy's Bookstore. "I'm not sure of the
> title, and I don't know the author or publisher, but it's about
> databases and it's pink." ;-P
>
> -Josh
>
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