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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (4 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764577328
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764577321
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.6 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 432,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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  • Taking readers through the basics of the language, right up to some more advanced topics, this book is a practical, hands–on resource and aims to keep the reader involved at all times
  • Focuses on the SQL standard and is loaded with detailed examples and code; each chapter includes practice exercises that readers can challenge themselves with before looking at the sample solutions in the appendix
  • Paul Wilton is a successful Wrox "Beginning" book author and is an ideal author to write for those who want a firm grasp of standard SQL before learning the details specific to a particular database product
  • SQL is an international standard for manipulating data in databases and is used by database programmers in all major database systems: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, MySQL, and many others


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SQL works with databases to insert and extract data and is an international standard for manipulating data in databases. This hands–on resource covers everything from a review of SQL basics and database design to creating your own databases and using the SQL language in a variety of database applications.

Packed with essential code, theories, concepts, and techniques, as well as a cache of useful examples, this comprehensive text will have you quickly designing your own databases and writing SQL code sufficient for many real–world situations. Practice exercises in each chapter help speed up your comprehension. By the end of the book, you′ll be prepared to handle any surprise that SQL might throw your way.

What you will learn from this book

  • How to get the answers you want from a database
  • Procedures for using and manipulating data with SQL′s built–in functions
  • Ways to retrieve data from numerous and diverse tables
  • How to create various levels of security in a database so you can edit data or change the database′s structure
  • Theories and practical applications of normalization
  • Advanced database design

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers with some prior programming experience who are seeking to develop their database programming skills using SQL. The book assumes no previous programming experience, so it is also suitable for database programming beginners including database administrators.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Does a beginner need to know about performance tuning?, 30 Oct 2005
By Graeme Harker (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This is Wrox's book for those keen to learn SQL who have no experience of database programming at all. The good news is that it's not bad. Unfortunately it is two books rather crudely glued together.

The first book by Paul Wilton is what you would expect from a book with this title, a step-by-step introduction to SQL. It covers queries, functions, inner and outer joins, table and index creation, constraints and the fundamentals of relational database design. As the database-independent title of the book suggests it focuses on the standard features and functions of SQL that are common to all popular databases. In doing this the author makes the effort to point out where the popular databases vary from the standard. Understandably stored procedures are deemed to be beyond the scope of this book and are not mentioned. The databases covered by the first book are Oracle 10g, MySQL 4.1, SQL Server 2000, DB2 8.1 and Access XP. The book also includes a very handy appendix which explains how to obtain a free evaluation copy of each of these databases and how to install them on Windows.

The second book, by John Colby, covers the more advanced topics of transactions, security and database performance tuning. Unfortunately the second book is written unashamedly only for SQL Server and little or no attempt is made to explain how the same functionality is delivered by other databases. I can't understand this. Wrox has a perfect good book already for those keen to learn about SQL Server by Robert Vieira.

In my view for the next release of the book Wrox should drop the second section of this book altogether, as it doesn’t belong in a beginners’ guide to SQL and instead ask Paul to beef up the chapters on functions and data types, including an overview of the more often used datatypes in the five RDBMSs. In my experience beginners need to know how to use IDENTITY and SEQUENCE generators when they build their first database applications, not security and database performance tuning.

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