Anyone who does any work at all with databases needs to know something of SQL. This is a friendly and easy-to-read guide to writing queries with the all-important — in the database world — SQL language. The author writes with exceptional clarity.
Clare Churchers Beginning SQL Queries is your guide to mastering the lingua franca of the database industry: the SQL language. Good knowledge of SQL is crucial to anyone working with databases, because it is with SQL that you retrieve data, manipulate data, and generate business results. Knowing how to write good queries is the foundation for all work done in SQL, and it is a foundation that Clare lays well in her book.
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
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.
Clare Churcher
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