Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes

Written by Ben Forta ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Published by     QUE; 2 edition (26 April 2001) Genre SQL, Database Management Systems, Applications Pages 272

The blurb:

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, 2E is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. Instead of dwelling of database theory and relational design, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of SQL users who simply need to interact with data.

The reader of this book will learn how to:

• Retrieve and sort data 
• Filter data using comparisons and wildcards 
• Use the aggregate functions to analyze data 
• Perform insert, update, and delete operations 
• Join relational tables using inner, outer, and self joins 
• Combine queries using unions 
• Use views 
• Create and use stored procedures, triggers, and other advanced database features 

Database Management Systems    SQL    Non-Fiction

My thoughts:

This is a good tool for learning SQL, but I preferred the Sam's Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours. I think this more to do with the book size, as I found the smaller book with smaller print more difficult to read and digest.

I still look things up in it when something isn't working as expected, as it offers different examples which can sometimes help me see my coding errors.

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