Thread: Looking for some advise on training materials

Looking for some advise on training materials

From
Bill Moran
Date:
I want to get some folks some professional development work to do on
the topic of databases (PostgreSQL-related, but I'm looking for
some more general material on the subject of relational design, etc as
well)

Because the training budget is used up for this year, and I don't want
to wait until January, I'm trying to find things that are inexpensive
enough to get started on right away.

To that end, does anyone have any recommendations?  Something like a
self-guided online course, or a book that's written specifically to be
a self-study?

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Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>


Re: Looking for some advise on training materials

From
Adam Mackler
Date:
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:01:18PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> I want to get some folks some professional development work to do on
> the topic of databases (PostgreSQL-related, but I'm looking for
> some more general material on the subject of relational design, etc as
> well)
>
> To that end, does anyone have any recommendations?  Something like a
> self-guided online course, or a book that's written specifically to be
> a self-study?

Hugh Darwen's excellent "An Introduction to Relational Database
Theory" is available for free (it has ads in it).

http://bookboon.com/en/an-introduction-to-relational-database-theory-ebook

I see he's also written some companion materials that go with that
book, including exercises, though I haven't read those.

http://www.free-ebooks.net/profile/15521/Hugh-Darwen

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Adam Mackler


Re: Looking for some advise on training materials

From
Paul Jungwirth
Date:
> Because the training budget is used up for this year, and I don't want
> to wait until January, I'm trying to find things that are inexpensive
> enough to get started on right away.

I'm looking forward to others' suggestions which will surely be
better, but I originally learned the basics of data normalization and
SQL from _Oracle 8: The Complete Reference_. Chapters 1-3 are a very
practical and easy-to-follow introduction, and are hardly
Oracle-specific at all. That's about 80 pages total. I'm sure there
are excellent on-line resources as well, but this worked for me and
made it very easy to pick up.

Good luck!
Paul

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