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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has established itself as the gold standard for introductory SQL books, offering a fast-paced accessible tutorial to the major themes and techniques involved in applying the SQL language. Forta¿s examples are clear and his writing style is crisp and concise. As with earlier editions, this revision includes coverage of current versions of all major commercial SQL platforms. New this time around is coverage of MySQL, and PostgreSQL. All examples have been tested against each SQL platform, with incompatibilities or platform distinctives called out and explained.
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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has established itself as the gold standard for introductory SQL books, offering a fast-paced accessible tutorial to the major themes and techniques involved in applying the SQL language. Forta¿s examples are clear and his writing style is crisp and concise. As with earlier editions, this revision includes coverage of current versions of all major commercial SQL platforms. New this time around is coverage of MySQL, and PostgreSQL. All examples have been tested against each SQL platform, with incompatibilities or platform distinctives called out and explained.
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The author has deliberately set out to create a book that assumes the reader has never used SQL before. It starts at the beginning with very simple tasks and works through more complex SQL as the book progresses. This book is nicely separated into small chapters so you can learn small chunks of precise material, and then come back later to learn a bit more.
It is also possible to download a training database, which accompanies the book - so you can try out, step-by-step, everything you read in the book.
I particularly like how the author quotes observations you are likely to witness when doing the tasks, so you understand the exact purpose behind entering each key stroke.
If you want to learn SQL from scratch or just need a book to jog your memory - look no further.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For some reason the smaller the book (on databases) the more useful it is. Get this and the 'Essence of databases' and you won't need much else.
This one sits on my shelf and gets daily use as a reference.
It is also useful to learn SQL, I've just replaced my first copy with the second edition and the coverage of Stored Procedures and Triggers has improved.
The only real weakness is that some of the examples are a little simplistic, you usually need to do operations on several rows, not just one. But despite this, the book is excellent particularly for the price.
This one sits on my shelf and gets daily use as a reference.
It is also useful to learn SQL, I've just replaced my first copy with the second edition and the coverage of Stored Procedures and Triggers has improved.
The only real weakness is that some of the examples are a little simplistic, you usually need to do operations on several rows, not just one. But despite this, the book is excellent particularly for the price.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you need a painless introduction to SQL, this book is excellent. I now work in db administration and development, and this was my first SQL book ever. The explanations are clear, accurate, and try to cover the most popular DBMSs on the market (mainly SQL Server and Oracle), though the book doesn't usually mention which SQL statements are supported in Access and which ones aren't. This is understandable, but an irritating omission nonetheless. I also had to refer to other sources to get a clear explanation of joins; I found the book to be inadequate in this respect, but apart from that it is excellent.
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Excellent introduction to SQL
Building on a very dodgy basis of some Access porgramming 15 years ago, I was intrigued and delighted with this straightforward guide to SQL programming. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Mr. David J. Uhlar
Great for Beginners or Reference
This is a great book if you are a beginner or if you do not use SQL every day and so need a quick reference guide for simple to fairly complex queries.
Published 4 months ago by M Blake
excellent introduction
An excellent introduction to SQL.
I particularly liked the sequence of the chapters. Moving from the most simple concepts through to the more difficult. Read more
I particularly liked the sequence of the chapters. Moving from the most simple concepts through to the more difficult. Read more
Published 5 months ago by ivan
A genuinely useful intro' and essential refresher...
I've now purchased several copies of this book, providing it as the first point of introduction and reference to the members of my (SQL) testing team. Read more
Published 6 months ago by G. Ward
How many "ten minutes" have you got?
This is quite a useful reference book for anyone using Structured Query Language for interrogating relational databases. Read more
Published 6 months ago by DougMilly
Readable for complete beginners
I read this book without ever having read a book on programming/coding or having attempted to learn it.
It gives a nice simple step by step guide to the basics of SQL. Read more
It gives a nice simple step by step guide to the basics of SQL. Read more
Published 14 months ago by James Hind, founder of carbuzz
Great beginners guide
TY SQL in 10 minutes is a great beginners guide to the program.
Chapters/topics do really take only about 10 minutes to read. Read more
Chapters/topics do really take only about 10 minutes to read. Read more
Published 17 months ago by A. Wierzbicki
A good little reference
I bought this book to help me to write SQL queries through VBA in Access. I found it very useful although what I was doing was pretty simple. Read more
Published on 28 July 2009 by D. Eden
The perfect beginners reference
I already had some knowledge of SQL before reading this book, however there is still so much commonly overlooked at a basic level that this book covers perfectly. Read more
Published on 22 May 2009 by S. Banda
best programming book i have every red
so simple, each chapter really dose take 10 min! can't believe the amount time i have wasted trying hack code together from web forums and write crazy php when i could just read... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2008 by Mr. Kevin N. Meredith
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