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.
Broad appeal – Developers, web designers, database administrators, even power users working with Microsoft Access need to know something of SQL Clarity – Author's previous book, Beginning Database Design, has established her as someone who writes with exceptional clarity about database topics Succinctness – Beginning Queries with SQL does not waste readers' time. It covers the ground in far fewer pages than do competing books