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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OFFTOPIC: SQL book From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:33:10 -0700 Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> wrote: > I was asked for a good SQL book for beginners. Does anyone have a > recommendation. It's so long since I learned SQL that I simply do not know > anymore how I got started. Well, as a relative beginner, allow me to offer a suggestion to stay away from the book I've been reading: "Understanding The New SQL: A Complete Guide" by Melton and Simon. This is not the worst technical book I've read, but something seems to be subtly *off* about it... it's a little too repetitious, it jumps back and fourth just a little too much. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but I think there's a hint in the way they insist pedantically that "SQL" is not to be pronounced "sequel". There's a bunch of material available on-line, of course: This claims to be the only comprehensive on-line introduction to SQL: http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm This is a SQL on-line course, that evidentally allows you to play with a database interactively to test out examples: http://sqlcourse.com/ And Philip Greenspun has one of the more entertaining introductions: http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/databases-choosing === Subject: Re: [HACKERS] OFFTOPIC: SQL book From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 03:57:44 -0300 (ADT) The Practical SQL Handbook ... ===