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SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) Review by Brandon H. Einhorn
a lot of trivial problems
The books has some worthwhile information in the last third of the book, but most of it is very basic material:
- how to get the smallest and largest values from a columns (use the min and max and group by functions - this is good for novices, of no use to me)
- how to insert a record ?
- counting rows in a table :-)
- it doesnt contain Sybase examples - though the syntax will work in most cases
In fairness there are some good parts as well, all I'm saying is this is not a great book if you are already experienced.
Its good for beginners.
Optimizing Transact SQl is far more useful for advanced SQL users.