Beginning Queries with SQL is a friendly and easily read guide to writing queries with the all-important in the database world SQL language. Anyone who does any work at all with databases needs to know something of SQL, and that is evidenced by the strong sales of such books as Learning SQL (O'Reilly) and SQL Queries for Mere Mortals (Pearson). Beginning Queries with SQL is written by the author of Beginning Database Design, an author who is garnering great reviews on Amazon due to the clarity and succinctness of her writing.
Anyone who does any work at all with databases needs to know something of SQL. This is a friendly and easy-to-read guide to writing queries with the all-important in the database world SQL language. The author writes with exceptional clarity.
Tagline: A thoughtful approach to learning about SQL that helps you think about the language--and about your data--so that you can apply the right operations to the right problem to generate the right results, every time.
Clare Churcher’s Beginning SQL Queries is your guide to mastering the lingua franca of the database industry: the SQL language. Good knowledge of SQL is crucial to anyone working with databases, because it is with SQL that you retrieve data, manipulate data, and generate business results. Knowing how to write good queries is the foundation for all work done in SQL, and it is a foundation that Clare lays well in her book.
- Does not bore with syntax!
- Helps you learn the underlying concepts involved in querying a database, and from there the syntax is easy
- Provides exceptionally clear examples and explanations
- Is academically sound while being practical and approachable
1. Relational Database Overview
2. Simple Queries on One Table
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