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SQL Hacks (Paperback)

by Andrew Cumming (Author), Gordon Russell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 410 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (21 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596527993
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596527990
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 378,140 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database. It offers 100 hacks - unique tips and tools - that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical techniques to address complex data manipulation problems. Learn how to: wrangle data in the most efficient way possible; aggregate and organize your data for meaningful and accurate reporting; make the most of subqueries, joins, and unions; stay on top of the performance of your queries and the server that runs them; and, avoid common SQL security pitfalls, including the dreaded SQL injection attack. Let "SQL Hacks" serve as your toolbox for digging up and manipulating data. If you love to tinker and optimize, SQL is the perfect technology and "SQL Hacks" is the must-have book for you.

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Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or
PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to
squeeze data effectively from your database. It offers 100 hacks -- unique
tips and tools -- that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what
they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the
expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical techniques to address
complex data manipulation problems.

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3.0 out of 5 stars OK - a bit academic, 12 Jun 2009
Found a few useful tips in this but it struck me as rather academic in it's approach rather than "real world".

Also I think it tries to cover too many versions of SQL - probably best suited to mySQL over MSSQL, Oracle etc....
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