"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote
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> Probably the best of breed is Joe Celko's "SQL For Smarties" but I
> wouldn't call it a beginner's book by any stretch of the imagination.

i actually browsed through that one and it looked pretty impressive ...
and then i saw it wasn;t for the beginner ...

> Put it on your list for book number 2 or 3.

will do. thanks.

> Also, remember that TransactSQL is no more generic than is Oracle's
> PL/SQL or any other vendor's implementation.

i really don't have a clue about SQL. aren't all the SQL's based on
one version?

> So make sure the SQL book you get is one that is oriented toward the
> RDBMS on which you will be working.

it would probably be Oracle.

mike

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and i have no experience with that either