SQL

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd Edition)
by Ben Forta
Average Customer Review: based on 156 reviews.
Customer Review: I am not kidding when I say I knew NOTHING about SQL prior to getting this book. Every chapter has been REAL. The information is clean, direct, and the language is level-headed. Ben Forta really targeted the novice and inexperienced SQL user, and he presents each SQL concept in clear usage using a common table across chapters. It's...

Learning SQL
by Alan Beaulieu
Average Customer Review: based on 34 reviews.
Customer Review: The header on the front page of this book says "A Pain-Free Introduction to SQL..." and that's what the book exactly is. The book introduces and discusses SQL statements for DB creation, population, querying - and subquerying -, data generation, conversion and manipulation. The SQL statements are illustrated through practical sound ...

Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL -- A Learner's Guide
by Lynn Beighley
Average Customer Review: based on 42 reviews.
Customer Review: I've been dabbling in SQL on three databases for three years on two different projects. After doing this for so long I decided to get serious and clear away the misconceptions, bad advice, and the confusion. This book is just the way to get straightened out on the subject. I didn't know how much I didn't know about database design a...

SQL For Dummies
by Allen G. Taylor
Average Customer Review: based on 33 reviews.
Customer Review: This was just what I wanted. I was pleased with the service and the book.

SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
by Anthony Molinaro
Average Customer Review: based on 49 reviews.
Customer Review: A must have for any person who want to write advance SQL. It has examples for DB2, Sybase, MSSQL, and Oracle.

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Bill Karwin
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
Customer Review: I recently got a new job and inherited a vast collection of SQL queries to maintain. Reading Karwin's book has been a tremendous help! Each chapter considers a particular design issue ("How can I store more than one value in a field?") and shows the most common, flawed method (the "antipattern"). He carefully explains the disadvantag...

SQL Pocket Guide (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
by Jonathan Gennick
Average Customer Review: based on 24 reviews.
Customer Review: This is a very useful and practical book that contains tools and commands that you can use specified by db engine. It is made based on the most common database engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, SQLServer).

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals(R): A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL (2nd Edition)
by John L. Viescas, Michael J. Hernandez
Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: I was in the process of teaching myself SQL. At first I went on the tutorial on the mysql website, which was good, but the examples were very small. You could cut & paste data from the web page into a file and then LOAD DATA LOCAL ... the data into a table, but the data wasn't quite formatted right and you had to massage it. And all...

SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide (3rd Edition)
by Chris Fehily
Average Customer Review: based on 24 reviews.
Customer Review: Most of the titles in the Visual Quickstart Guide series that I've acquired have been very useful and "SQL" by Chris Fehily is no exception. I use SQL relatively rarely and this book is an excellent reference and refresher when I need a fast immersion in SQL. The Visual Quickstart Guides teach by - you guessed it - visual examples a...

The MicrosoftData Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server2005 and the MicrosoftBusiness Intelligence Toolset
by Joy Mundy, Warren Thornthwaite, Ralph Kimball
Average Customer Review: based on 22 reviews.
Customer Review: I've enthusiastically referenced Kimball publications for business intelligence projects over the years; everything from how to manage history in slowly changing dimensions to fact-less fact tables to creating an initial data warehouse project plan, always with outstanding results. Mundy, Thornthwaite, and Kimball achieve two key mi...