SQL Queries for Mere Mortals

Posted by tripwire45 on Nov 16, 2007 12:24 AM EDT
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The first edition of this book got very good reviews and usually that means that unless something is drastically different about the second edition or it didn't keep up with the technology, it'll be a success, too. It's been seven years since the first edition came out which is reason enough to publish this updated title. This book comes off as cool in a couple of ways right off the bat. First of all, it's vendor-neutral...

...It's not an Access book, or an MS SQL book, or a MySQL book, or an Oracle book or a...well, you get the idea. At its core, SQL is a database language that has been implemented by a number of vendors including Microsoft and that has an open source expression in MySQL but without those tweaks and spins, is just "plain old SQL". One size fits all platforms.

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