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Summary: Excellent Tool for Developers
Review: This book is worth it's weight in gold! It will be the SQL reference you pull out when needed. This is great for beginners to learn, and experts to remember. You can't find anything better for the price!
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Summary: To the point and useful
Review: Of the 7+ SQL books on my shelf, this little book is the most useful. The author has a great writing style that is easy to follow. He provides plenty of examples and doesn't waste time or pages with tons of extra info just to build the page count. I've learned more useful techniques from this book that any of the other SQL books I own. It's an excellent resource for beginner and intermediate developers and might be a good refresher for some advanced developers.
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Summary: Just gets to the point!
Review: This is an excellent resource for those looking to learn SQL fast. This book covers all of the *important* aspects of this language without clouding the information with tons of examples that really only sometimes are just for the authors ego. If you need to learn SQL fast this truly is the book for you. I still use it at my desk as a handy reference tool (along with some other books!). Buy this book if you need to learn SQL fast or are just curious about the subject. The price of the book is well worth the information the book contains.
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Summary: Excellent information in immediate format
Review: As a ColdFusion developer, I'm used to carried around heavy tomes. This particular book is small, easy to read, and cuts directly to information you need to know for basic SQL design. In addition to covering all the basics, Ben Forta points out where syntax differes from one database (Access, Oracle, SQL Server) to another.I recommend it to all my student programmers and co-workers. I also use it as a reference guide. It's a relief to carry a book that doesn't strain my backpack, too!
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Summary: Good book, but pay attention...
Review: This book is very helpful for me, it's really straight and simple, but there is one thing you should pay attention to. Before I read this book, I've already read several book about ColdFusion, and use cfml to play around with the database. This book doesn't specify any actual language to assist you(like ASP, PHP, or ColdFusion), just focus on the pure SQL, that means you are supposed to being already dealing with one type of database and know one programming language like ASP, PHP or whatever. Otherwise, it's a little bit difficult for you to follow the example in the book to practise.(but you can just read it without practice, still very helpful) Most of all, each chapter is only 5-6 pages, and tell things very clear. I LOVE IT!!!! Hope every programming book is short like that.
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Summary: Great book with hands-on examples!!
Review: This book is practical and is packed with useful examples. It builds slowly and clearly states all the various outcomes for each SQL example. I like this book namely because it keeps the various DBMSs in mind while plowing through each concept. Each lesson/chapter is about 10mins long - thus the title, but its long enough so that going back to review is not a chore. Keep in mind it is a beginner's book, but as a start its a great foundation. I recommend that before you start with the first lesson you go straight to the Appendices and get the tables (structure and data) so that you can follow along with whatever tool you're working with (Access, SQL SERV 7, etc.). I've found this to be the best method of attack. Bravo Ben Forta! Thanks for the help!
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Summary: Where's MySQL?
Review: I would give this book only one star, but because it did do a good job of explaining the SQL language, I'm going to give it two. Not once in this book did they explain MySQL, which is the most popular database used today. Also, the book did cover ASP a little, but no PHP. How can you have a book about SQL and not cover the topics of PHP and MySQL, even if for a brief moment. However, they did cover Microsoft SQL Server, a commercial database server which most people will never have to interact with, and of all things, Microsoft Query. I didn't even know Microsoft still did this. They also covered Oracle, another important DBMS, but again people, Oracle is something only encountered in a commercial world. It is a great system, but most of us will not have to worry about it. And finally, the title totally throws the readers off. It is impossible to learn SQL in ten minutes. Besides the fact that most people can't read an entire book in ten minutes, it's impossible to comprehend all the material the book gives you in ten minutes. But anyway, if you're looking to get some information on how to use SQL with MySQL, or if you plan to use PHP to connect to your database, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! It will not help you at all.
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Summary: Great resource
Review: Easy to understand for the beginner, and a powerful reference for the SQL pro.
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Summary: Worth more than it's price
Review: This little book serves as a great reference for novice to intermediate users. Also a good brief intro for beginners with the SQL syntax. The reason I gave 4 instead of 5 stars, was that author put the info and data for the table setup in the appendix. If you are a new user, you probably won't know that you are supposed to create these tables and then alter them with the constraints. It would have been nice to download the text from a website instead of typing all the data to insert. Other than that, a great book.
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Summary: Get up to speed quickly and have an excellent reference
Review: I absolutely love this book. I'm fairly new to relational databases and SQL, and I can say quite honestly that this is one book that never leaves my computer's side. Any time I have to write a query that goes beyond simple SELECTs, I turn to Forta's book because it offers quick, concise, and useful information on getting the job done. I've had the book for about 4 months and so far, I've been able to get answers that I can apply usefully in just minutes. It's worth repeating that I'm fairly new to all this, so my demands aren't necessarily all that great. A word of caution to other database beginners: This is ***NOT*** a beginning book on databases. Forta offers about 5 pages on database rudiments, which won't be nearly enough unless you've been exposed to the material before. For instance, if you're not familiar with the term "normalization" or the ideas behind "one-to-many" or "many-to-many" relationships, you should bone up on your basics first. If you need to learn about database basics (especially if you're using MS Access), I'd recommend "Inside Relational Databases" by Whitehorn and Marklyn.
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