SQL for Dummies | 
|  | | | Title: | SQL for Dummies | | Author: | Allen G. Taylor | | Publisher: | For Dummies | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 08 August, 2003 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0764540750 / 9780764540752 | | List Price: | $24.99 | | You Save: | $20.64 | | Amazon Price: | $4.35 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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Many database management system (DBMS) tools run on a variety of hardware platforms. The differences among the tools can be many, but all serious products have one thing in common: They support data access and manipulation in SQL, the industry-standard language specifically designed to enable people to create and manage databases. If you know SQL, you can build relational databases and get useful information out of them. Relational database management systems are vital to many organizations. People often think that creating and maintaining these systems are extremely complex activities – the domain of database gurus who possess enlightenment beyond that of ordinary mortals. Well, SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition, sweeps away the database mystique. Written in easy-to-understand terms and updated with the latest information on SQL, this handy reference shows you step-by-step how to make your database designs a reality using SQL:2003. But you don't have to be a database newbie to find value in SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition; even if you have some experience designing and creating databases, you may discover a few things you didn't know about. Here's just a sampling of some of the things you'll find covered in SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition: - Exploring relational database and SQL fundamentals
- Building and maintaining a simple database structure
- Building a multiple relational database
- Manipulating database data
- Examining SQL nuts and bolts: values, expressions, operators, and queries
- Providing database security and protecting your data
- Exploring ODBC and JDBC, and using SQL with XML
- Moving beyond the basics: cursors, persistent stored modules, and error-handling
- Top Ten lists on common SQL mistakes and retrieval tips
Plain and simply, databases are the best tools ever invented for keeping track of the things you care about. After you understand databases and can use SQL to make them do your bidding, you wield tremendous power. SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition, can get you well on your way to harnessing the power of databases.
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This is the rare case of a book that can take you from a beginner to an advanced-intermediate level. Like many of the books in IDG's Dummies series, this volume begins with a definition ("What is SQL?") and ends with "The Part of Tens," a collection of tips in a top ten list form. Taylor writes in a breezy, entertaining style that SQL novices will find inviting. One caveat: The examples are given in Borland's Delphi, a rapid application development (RAD) tool. Some sections show several screen shots from Delphi and it may be difficult to follow along in these sections if you don't have the program in front of you. As with other Dummies books, SQL for Dummies is entertaining to read although the nonstop jokes may distract some readers from the technical content.
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Customer Reviews:
• Shipped In A Very Short Time 31 August, 2005
This book was shipped to us in a very short period of time. We were very pleased with this purchase.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1G62JJVWX9J64
• Absolutely Terrible 22 November, 2005
I have read several books in the Dummies series and found them all excellent, so when it was time to learn SQL for a programming project I got this one immediately.
Unfortunately, SQL for Dummies, turned out to be that absolute worst technical book I have ever laid eyes on.
It jumps from topic to topic without ever really explaining anything. It uses examples that are unecessarily complex -- I get the feeling his examples just come from years of working with databases, rather than a desire to illustrate any particular thing -- and the examples are never explained. Over and over, there will be a snippet of SQL code used as an example, and I will wonder, "what does this or that part of the statement do?" But he never explains anything. He just throws it out there and then moves on.
Dummies books always have a conversational tone, but the tone in this book is overly hokey and just reads like meaningless filler; all the more frustrating because there isn't really any content that it's filling in between.
All I wanted was the basics of database design and interaction, an enumeration of the commands used for creating and interacting with databases and why some actions are useful and for what, and examples throughout of how one would do typical things. Instead I got an intolerable and incoherent ramble.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2RUG5WCZ51H6D
• We Love It! 20 December, 2006
Hardcore DBAs have knocked this book, but I have coworkers who reference it daily and they are now very experienced and knowledgable of SQL.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1X4LCHP3V6T0Q
• Sql For Dummies 05 November, 2006
If you know absolutely nothing about SQL, this book is for you!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1IU2GIH6YCFJC
• A Proper Start In Sql, Nothing More 23 March, 2006
About a year ago, I was writing up a series of lessons for a course in Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) that I was preparing for a local business. As is always the case, they needed the course right away, so I had little time to prepare the lessons. To illustrate what can be done using JDBC, I used the executeQuery() method of the Statement object. The executeQuery() method accepts an SQL command as input, so it was necessary for me to quickly brush up on SQL commands. This is the book I reached for to get myself back to speed on SQL commands. Like all ""For Dummies" books, it can be used to quickly learn the basics of the topic, although it has little use beyond the beginning. I found it adequate for my needs at the time, although when I needed to delve deeper into SQL for a later course, I went elsewhere.
All of the basics are covered at the level one expects from the series, and at the level of the beginner. Of course, some people will struggle with the book, as there is no precise definition of "beginner", or "dummy" for that matter. Nevertheless, if you need to learn the fundamentals of SQL in a hurry, then this book is the one for you. It is simple, direct and just thorough enough to put you on the right track.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1S3C5OFU508P3
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