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Structured Query Language (SQL): a Practical Introduction

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My father has a copy of this book, and someday I hope to find one for myself. It's a slim book that gets right down to business and shows you how to use the language with crystal-clear explanations and examples.

Use this as your introductory text for learning SQL (hence the name). For more advanced and vendor-specific topics (triggers, stored procs, ect.) you'll probably need to look at the vendor's documentation. Also, you won't find too much database design theory in here either. That's not the book's purpose.

This little dog-eared gem lives in our office and moves from desk to desk because it never fails to quickly answer our everyday SQL questions.

This book is very consice and goes right to the point. I love all the examples, definitely a teach by example book. I can't stop reading it!!! Is easy to understand and will have you creating your own databases is no time flat. There should be more books like this out there.

The copy of this book that I have had seen a lot of use and I can see why. There is no simpler text for learning the syntax and structure of SQL. I would recommend this as an introductory text with a book on database design. Particulary liked the many easy to follow examples.