Customer Reviews

Understanding SQL

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I've owned this book for only 48 hours and have read it from cover to cover and I am starting with it all over again!

The Author covers ANSI SQL clearly and in-depth with good examples!

I would recommend this for anyone who wants to learn SQL and have an accurate reference.

It's for beginner to advanced SQL folks!

As a professional Visual Basic, SQL, and Pascal developer, I really needed a reference manual like this one! You know, for those times when you're in the middle of writing some SQL code and ask yourself a question like: "Now how do I format that 'Select' statement?"

I've tried a couple of the "SQL For Dummies" books and returned each of them! I really did not think that a book like this existed, but here it is!

Get this book!

While I initially liked "The Practical Sql Handbook : Using Structured Query Language" better, after a couple of months I found this book in front of me more often. It is a little dry, but very good at explaining things like nested sub-queries, LIKE, EXISTS, and such. Several years later I had an employee working on an SQL parser in LEX/YACC and he found this book very helpful in definining the parser's syntax because of its conciseness. It doesn't go into the 31 flavors of SQL much, but those will be your third and n_th books anyway so not to worry. If I get away from SQL for awhile, (I'm really a C, C++ programmer) I hunt down Gruber's book before starting in again. If there's a better 2nd book out there, I haven't found it yet. You can't go wrong at the price.

I'm a newbie to SQL, and borrowed a copy of this book from a coworker a few weeks ago. I was hooked from chapter 1. I'm already creating and dropping tables and manipulating data, and understanding everything! This book is wonderful, and I urge anyone who wants a good solid understanding of SQL to get a copy and just sit down and start reading. The examples are easy to follow but not patronizingly so, and there are short quizzes at the end of each chapter to reinforce the main concepts. This is going to be an invaluable resource for me as I continue down this path. Five stars aren't enough!

As a full-time student, I was after a book to compliment course notes that I recieve and get a better understanding of more advanced SQL. The other customer reviews swayed my decision to choose this book and it was everything and more than I expected. Keep those reviews coming.

This book offers the basics to the first part of advanced. It is great in that all of the explinations are followed by many examples on a working database (downloadable). It is quite an amazing and very much worth while book for both reference and beginning SQL

I bought this book to cram for an interview and found it to be an excellent reference book. The inside cover has the syntax of the SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE commands - quite useful.

Excellent ordering of topics, starts with a comprehensive and clear explanation of queries, then to DML commands and embedded SQL. Provides the grounding invaluable for mastery of vendor specific brands of SQL. Superior pedagogy.

This is an excellent book for the begginers, who don't even know what is an SQL, they can learn on their own and master it with in a month.

The book has excercises at the back of each chapter. There is also one sample database at the back that helps you understanding relations. No book in the world can give you five or six years of experience but if you want to have the experience you should have a strong base.

This book walked me though to a clear understanding of SQL. Each chapter helped me build so that by the end I felt confident I could tackle any SQL task