Databases
SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Format: Paperback
Author: Anthony Molinaro
ReleaseDate: 01 December, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:
Excellent desktop resource book!
Reviewed by: Harold Buckner
This is a great book to have available at your fingertips. This book review was submitted by a Roanoke Valley SQL Server Users Group member as part of the Book Review Program. The table of contents is structured quite nicely and allows you to find what you need very quickly. The book covers a number of topics for solving everyday problems. It will also help you come up with ideas on how to go about handling particular queries by describing the problems and then listing possible solutions. And in these solutions you can find techniques on how to expand on them to resolve other issues.
The author Anthony Molinaro, included a chapter on Metadata Queries that would be great for the beginner DBA wanting to find information about the database schema as well as other chapters on String manipulation, working with numbers, dates, warehousing and hierarchical queries. The author includes solutions for various platforms that I thought were nice to see how the different platforms handled the solutions. I also thought the author did a great job expanding the solution to help you understand what was happening.
Great job Anthony and I hope to see more structured like this one.
Harold Buckner
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Love this cookbook
As a web developer in Kansas City, I have great need for providing my clients with great programming. This is definitely a fantastic book. This book is an integral part of my library.
My favorite topics in here are:
- Retrieving Records Section-really like searching for patterns
- Working with ranges. . used this one with a client.
- Reporting (Great need for online businesses)
Thanks Anthony - Great book review from me!
Sean Morelli
RPG Designs, LLC - Kansas City Web Design firm
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Make You Look SMARTER in SQL
But this cookbook changed the way I thought about SQL. I thought SQL was dull.
There were a lot that I thought I can't do in SQL, but Anthony used lively, practical and interesting example to demonstrate the power of SQL, to prove that I'm wrong over and over again.
To me it is mind-blowing. And I definitely do look smarter in SQL now.
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