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Summary: Great Book
Review: If starting out or know the basics of Select whatever from table, this book is for you. It explains SQL in a way you can understand, using real databases you would use.I did learn the hard way from a MS-SQL 7 book with queries, and the information in here seems redundant to what I already know through about 1 year of SQL queries through ASP. I would like to see a book that had more advanced problems other than 150 pages of explaining JOIN statements, while providing examples someone might use on a daily basis. ...
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Summary: Excellent
Review: If you're new to the SQL language, GET THIS BOOK! It is very readable and covers SQL fundamentals very well. Lots of easy-to-understand examples.
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Summary: Great book for getting up to speed with SQL queries
Review: My previous experience with a relational database was with DBASE III back in the 80's, so SQL queries were a whole new field. But this book explained all -- succinctly and in a style that shows you how to think through the problem to arrive at the solution. The examples and samples were superb! Highly recommended.
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Summary: top notch SQL material
Review: Our company switched to and extensively uses SQL. In an effort to educate the entire I.T. staff on the effective use of SQL, we purchased Microsoft Office Curriculum (to assess whether it fit our needs), searched book stores, and checked with Universities (online and local) for acceptable SQL curriculum. Our search was disappointing until we found this book. We enhanced this book with company-specific examples and created our own course using this book as the main text. We employed an instructor from a local university to conduct the course and have it certified by the state dept of education. It provides good information about good practices using SQL.
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Summary: Great text for sql queries
Review: Over the years I have turned to this book often, either for help with creating a query, or for help troubleshooting one. The book is well organized and clearly written. The standard diagram in the appendix has even proved to be useful on many occasions. The only thing I would have liked to see added to the book, would be the authors presentation of further SQL commands, such as INSERT, UPDATE, etc. But then, the title does make it clear this book is specifically for SQL queries.
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Summary: Great text for sql queries
Review: Over the years I have turned to this book often, either for help with creating a query, or for help troubleshooting one. The book is well organized and clearly written. The standard diagram in the appendix has even proved to be useful on many occasions. The only thing I would have liked to see added to the book, would be the authors presentation of further SQL commands, such as INSERT, UPDATE, etc. But then, the title does make it clear this book is specifically for SQL queries.
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Summary: BEST BOOK ON SQL ...PERIOD
Review: Reads easy, MCSE's the info you NEED about SQL is right here. Read this book before any and all other sql primers. Thank you Michael J. Hernandez and John L. Viescas.
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Summary: A non-threatening way to learn SQL
Review: SQL can be a threatening language for a beginner. Hernandez and Viescas's book provides an easy way to decipher and understand SQL. In particular, their method of converting real life questions into SQL queries is extremely useful and practical. The accompanying CD is extremely helpful. I highly recommend it for those who may be new to the subject and need a good introduction to the subject.
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Summary: Finally, SQL in layman's terms!
Review: Structured Query Language is "underneath the covers" of all of our relational databases, but is sometimes less than intuitive when it comes to writing SQL statements, scripts and stored procedures. True to his easy to understand style from his book "Database Design for Mere Mortals," Mr. Hernandez, along with John Viescas, has a book which is straightforward enough for me to recommend to my students who wish to learn more about SQL itself.
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Summary: Who is a mere mortal? Me?
Review: The answer is not simple. When we started to write this book, we thought we were "experts" in the database language called SQL. Along the way, we discovered we were "mere mortals" too, in several areas. We understood a few specific implementations of SQL very well, but we unraveled many of the complex intricacies of the language as we studied how the language is used in many commercial products. As a beginning database user who has just discovered that the data you need is fetched using SQL, this book will teach you all the basics and more. For an "expert" user who is suddenly faced with solving complex problems or integrating multiple systems that support SQL, this book provides insights into leveraging the complex abilities of the SQL database language.
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