Re: 2 tables, joins and same name...

Ross,

> Have you seen "Database Design for Mere Mortals" by Michael
> Hernandez?

Yeah, that's one I've been loaning out a lot. However, while it does
cover a lot of good stuff about how to design a database, it never gets
past the most elementary SQL ... really, no further than Bruce gets.
And if I recommend Hernandez together with "SQL for Smarties", well,
that's over 600 pages combined ...

What I'd really love to see, I guess, would be a 200 page "Elements of
SQL" book organized into "lessons" for the beginner. Maybe with an
additional 75 pages of Q&A examples at the back.

Maybe I should write one.

> And there's another one, that I can only remember as 'the pink book',
> I can never remember the title! that struck me as a reasonably good
> intro to intermediate level book.

Oh, that'll make me friends at Stacy's Bookstore. "I'm not sure of the
title, and I don't know the author or publisher, but it's about
databases and it's pink." ;-P

-Josh

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