- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (1 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072119748
- ISBN-13: 978-0072119749
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,973,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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SQL (structured query language) is flexible, cross-platform language used to identify trends and relationships in data. SQL relational database business and services is a multi-billion dollar industry. The perfect introduction to SQL in an accelerated tutorial fashion. Real-world examples of how to design a database and retrieve data using queries and reports.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book hoping for a complete, concise, and clear treatment of SQL.
Unfortunately, what I got was a confusing, disorganized mess of a book whose examples are full of obvious typos (eg, they use inconsistent names for the same database columns within a single example -- didn't anyone proofread this book?), and whose explanations often do more harm than good.
To take just one example: early in the book there's a 15 line SQL query full of operators the reader has not yet been introduced to, whose explanation points out that "this example includes a left outer join". Fair enough, but this is within the first 40 pages or so of the book, and the author hasn't actually told the reader what a left outer join *is*, or why the reader should care.
The careless construction and copy-editing of this book makes it more confusing than enlightening. My copy will be going back to the bookstore.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book looked rather comprehensive when I flipped through it in the bookstore, but I was unpleasantly surprised to discover how much it lacked when I tried to use it at work the next day. None of the items I looked up were covered in any reasonable amount of detail, and many items weren't covered at all. For example, I found nothing regarding how to insert data from one table into another table! I had to borrow a co-workers book instead. This book is going back to the store today!
Format:Paperback
For a book that's yet to be published, this one was pretty thorough.
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