Sql
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL
Format: Paperback
Author: Michael J. Hernandez
ReleaseDate: 21 August, 2000
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:
gradually build up to writing complex queries
It can be a formidable barrier to a new user. SQL by now has acquired many elaborations in syntax. But the authors explain well how to take a query, expressed in plain English, and arrive at an actual SQL query which will work. Hopefully, anyway!
If you follow the book, then you can end up building quite complex SQL queries before you know it. To the extent of being able to embed joins inside joins, and to facilely manipulate outer joins and subqueries.
By the way, the book was published in 2000. It is not obsolete in the least, unlike texts in other branches of computing. The SQL described in the book is ANSI SQL 92, which is supported by all the main database vendors.
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals 
Just as described. The book was brand new. Very fast shipping too.
Not What I Expected 
. I was excited to get this book until going through 450+ pages, I realized it was more of a beginners book than serious data manipulation.
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