SQL Textbook
- From: Stéphane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:33:33 +0200
Somewhat in line with the excellent quote recently found by Hemant in the 12c
docs:
"However,it is impossible to tune applications or a database without knowing
SQL."
I'm glad to tell that my SQL book for beginners (I take them rather far) is
available on Amazon on schedule, even if the book is ultimately thicker than
initially intended:
http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Success-Database-Programming-Proficiency/dp/1909765007/
I have tried to explain SQL the way I wish it had been explained to me when I
started, which would have saved me a lot of time, and the way I wish it had
been taught to quite a number of developers I have met. Even if this kind of
thing isn't always immediately obvious from the table of contents, I believe
that my approach is rather different from what I have seen elsewhere. I cover
Oracle, of course, but also <smaller>DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL</smaller>,<tiny>SQL
Server</tiny> and <microscopic>SQLite</microscopic> - which was a bit
challenging at times (date arithmetic or triggers, anyone?)
About 10% of the book (the first five pages of each chapter) are freely
available at http://edu.konagora.com, as well as all the code samples from the
book. If you teach in a college or university, the full chapters and a lot of
additional material are available in the member section (free, registration is
to keep students out); I'm trying to help instructors give great courses and
show students that databases are far from being as boring (and SQL as easy) as
I thought when I graduated. Going to use the material myself to teach at a
French school of engineering in September.
Enjoy,
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Stephane Faroult
RoughSea Ltd <http://www.roughsea.com>
Konagora <http://www.konagora.com>
RoughSea Channel on Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/user/roughsealtd>
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