Re: The Art of SQL

On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:46, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 08:59 -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote:

> > I'm a little more than half way through this book (The Art of
> > SQL), doing a book review of it for my local LUG.
> >
> > All in all, it looks like a very good book to me. I do think
> > that it should be looked at by novice SQL people, if for no
> > other reason that to try and keep certain bad habits from
> > forming.
> >
> > For the novice, I think some other document which talks more
> > about indexes and foreign keys is needed as well.
>
> That's not the books target market. If you read the section at
> the start "Assumptions made by this book" - it assumes that
> you're already pretty darn familiar with databases, SQL,
> indexing, ect. I'd imagine that there are books target at the
> Novice market that are more appropriate.

I looked at that. I still think that anyone who is writing SQL
will still benefit from reading it. Or, at least reading the
stuff they understand. And with time, I'm sure they will have
moments when they realise, "... that's what he meant when he
wrote ...".

Gord