I was asked for a good SQL book for beginners. Does anyone have a
recommendation. It's so long since I learned SQL that I simply do not know
anymore how I got started.

Michael
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:31:24 +0200
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
OFFTOPIC: SQL book

The Practical SQL Handbook ... 

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Michael Meskes wrote:

> I was asked for a good SQL book for beginners. Does anyone have a
> recommendation. It's so long since I learned SQL that I simply do not know
> anymore how I got started.
> 
> Michael
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> Michael Meskes
> Michael@Fam-Meskes.De
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> Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!
> 

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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 03:57:44 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: OFFTOPIC: SQL book

Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> wrote:

> I was asked for a good SQL book for beginners. Does anyone have a
> recommendation. It's so long since I learned SQL that I simply do not know
> anymore how I got started.

Well, as a relative beginner, allow me to offer a suggestion
to stay away from the book I've been reading: "Understanging
The New SQL: A Complete Guide" by Melton and Simon.  This is
not the worst technical book I've read, but something seems
to be subtly *off* about it... it's a little too
repetitious, it jumps back and fourth just a little too
much.  I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but I think
there's a hint in the way they insist pedantically that
"SQL" is not to be pronounced "sequel".

There's a bunch of material available on-line, of course: 

This claims to be the only comprehensive on-line
introduction to SQL:

   http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm

An SQL on-line course, that evidentally allows you to play
with a database interactively to test out examples:

   http://sqlcourse.com/

And Philip Greenspun has one of the more entertaining
introductions:

   http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/databases-choosing


Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:33:10 -0700
Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Re: OFFTOPIC: SQL book 
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:33:10AM -0700, Joe Brenner wrote:
> There's a bunch of material available on-line, of course: 
> ... 

Thanks.

Michael
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:19:00 +0200
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
Re: OFFTOPIC: SQL book