RE: Partly OT - Database Programming textbook
- From: Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:49 -0700
With Stephane's permission, a substantial excerpt from his upcoming book SQL
Success has been featured in the spring issue of the NoCOUG Journal. The link
to download the Journal is http://goo.gl/jJWbT
Iggy
Journal editor
> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:16:13 +0200
> From: sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Partly OT - Database Programming textbook
>
> Some list members may be adjunct or full-time faculty members and
> interested by the fact that I'm currently working on a 450-page textbook
> on Database Programming (title "SQL Success", subtitle "Database
> Programming Proficiency") that I will publish under the name of my
> company in a few months - the target is the "Database
> Fundamentals/Database Programming" undergraduate and continuous
> education courses (besides Oracle I cover SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
> DB2 - and SQLite). I'm short on theory and long on correctness and
> efficiency; my idea of a successful database instruction isn't being
> able to parrot the definition of 23 normal forms and requiring a
> procedure and five cursors to perform 20 times slower what can be done
> in a single query. --
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