Re: Best starter book - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Mladen Gogala
Subject Re: Best starter book
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In response to Re: Best starter book  (Dan Halbert <halbert@halwitz.org>)
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Dan Halbert wrote:
> On 5/21/2010 11:11 AM, Donn Washburn wrote:
>
>> What would be a good starter book.
>>
>
> I looked at several PostgreSQL-specific books about a year ago, and
> picked this one:
> Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL: From Novice to Professional, Second
> Edition
> http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Databases-PostgreSQL-Novice-Professional/dp/1590594789
>
> This is an intelligently written database intro book that covers both
> general database topics and PostgreSQL-specific topics. I had Oracle and
> MySQL experience beforehand, but still found this book quite useful. It
> is true now that I generally refer to the documentation.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
I concur. I also used the same book, the book was very useful to me.

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