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SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
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Author: Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0201433362
Publisher: Pearson Educational (21 August, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 5,851
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
No one on my job found this book useful
i am a java programmer. I found this book sitting around on the shelf at work, and i tried to read it, but it was really bad. I needed a reference and this book did not have solutions to the problems I had. Later i tried to read it as a tutorial, but it failed there too. i said "this book sucks!" and someone saw what book i was reading and laughed at me. Then all the other programmers saw me reading it and laughed, too. Aparently the book belonged to someone who quit the company and wanted nothing further to do with it, and it's been usless and confusing to everyone since -- and everyone discovers this fact sooner or later. everyone one day finds it and goes "this book sucks!" and everyone else laughs to see yet another person discover The Useless and Confusing Book! After they were done laughing at me a couple of them threw their sql books on my desk, and those were very helpful. get some generic sql reference for the commands and a basic tutorial to understand the language and you will be all set for life. even the title -- "for mere mortals" -- what the heck does the mean? you need to be a god to write sql, and here is un-godly sql? that makes no sense! what's the use of "mere mortal" sql then? i'm sure if you got nothing else this book can work but there are many better ones around. look around.
if you're too lazy to look around, get an O'Riley book! those are usually good -- I mean O'Riley books are far better than average -- but there always are books much better than O'Riley.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Not perfect, but I learned a lot
I'm new to SQL and don't have any other SQL books, but I found this book to be pretty helpful. The authors style is easy to read for the most part, but at times he gets a little long winded and kind of glosses over important technical points in an attempt to give you the broad picture. Nevertheless, it remains pretty readable overall. Personally, I found there to be a steep difference in the learning curve between the first and second halves of the book. The first 7 chapters are basically skimable material and I think the book would benefit from dedicating more pages to chapters 8 through 14 where most of the real meat is (joins, subqueries, grouping, etc.). Between the sample statements and the problems in the back of the book, there are lots of good examples, and I do feel like a learned a lot of SQL.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent explanation of complex querries
The authors offer simple explantions to complex concepts. They break it down nicely. I never though I could understand heavily nested querries and get a real handle on what is going on. I have a much more solid understanding of sql and am confident that I can get the info I need from my company's databases.Expect to spend a little time on some examples in order to allow concepts to sink in. I love this book.
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