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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596004811
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596004818
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 700
Publication Date: September 24, 2004
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 49056
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Rating: - An SQL Reference Book
This book covers various "flavors" of SQL, but not all of them. This was a "recommended" reference book for a college-level Introduction to SQL course. I will keep the book around as a technical reference even though I discovered it was a lot easier to find PostgreSQL syntax information by typing a command into Google and scanning the results for examples.
Rating: - Nice Pocket Reference For SQL
This is a nice, quick guide for referencing SQL. This book is not a 900 page behemoth to teach you all the ins and outs of SQL setup and performance tweaking, nor is it a 30 page list of commands. Rather, it is a nice "tweener" guide (200+ pages) to get your feet wet and remind you of what commands are and how SQL can be used. 'SQL In A Nutshell' covers SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL, going over the SQL standards that you can expect from these favorite flavors of SQL. Light on examples ... Read More
Rating:  - Cross platform syntax reference
This is a solid desk reference for SQL syntax which provides invaluable material on the portability of each type of statement. The heart of the book is the four hundred pages of statement reference. Each statement is described with it's syntax and options. Then the support for each database (DB2, MySQL, Oracle, PostgresSQL, and SQL Server) is described in detail. There is a similar 120 page reference on SQL functions.
This is classic O'Reilly. The text is well written, and the book is very ... Read More
Rating: - Maintaining several SQL implementations?
[A review of the 2nd edition, 2004.]
Perhaps the best virtue of this book is that it spans all the major variants of SQL - db2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft's SQL Server. The authors are not beholden to any particular vendor. Thus the book describes the common ground. That is, the commands and usage that are most likely to be the same or similar across these implementations. Because a major use of this book might be in migrating. To this end, the more code you can have in this common ... Read More
Rating: - Great reference, but tough to find what you're looking for
I have the 2nd Edition, which is 600+ pages.
The amount of information included is incredible. Each description of the individual statements has a "Programming Tips and Gotchas" which can be really helpful. I appreciated the "Rules at a Glance" in each section which give just a quick overview of each statement - the details are described in the section for each database (DB2, Oracle, MySQL, etc).
However, for me personally, the massive amount of quantity also leads to my frustration ... Read More
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