SQL For Dummies 5th Edition by Allen G. Taylor (PDF)

Description

Many database management system (DBMS) tools run on a variety of hardware platforms. The differences among the tools can be many, but all serious products have one thing in common: They support data access and manipulation in SQL, the industry-standard language specifically designed to enable people to create and manage databases. If you know SQL, you can build relational databases and get useful information out of them. Relational database management systems are vital to many organizations. People often think that creating and maintaining these systems are extremely complex activities – the domain of database gurus who possess enlightenment beyond that of ordinary mortals. Well, SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition, sweeps away the database mystique.Written in easy-to-understand terms and updated with the latest information on SQL, this handy reference shows you step-by-step how to make your database designs a reality using SQL:2003. But you don’t have to be a database newbie to find value in SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition; even if you have some experience designing and creating databases, you may discover a few things you didn’t know about.Here’s just a sampling of some of the things you’ll find covered in SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition:Exploring relational database and SQL fundamentalsBuilding and maintaining a simple database structureBuilding a multiple relational databaseManipulating database dataExamining SQL nuts and bolts: values, expressions, operators, and queriesProviding database security and protecting your dataExploring ODBC and JDBC, and using SQL with XMLMoving beyond the basics: cursors, persistent stored modules, and error-handlingTop Ten lists on common SQL mistakes and retrieval tipsPlain and simply, databases are the best tools ever invented for keeping track of the things you care about. After you understand databases and can use SQL to make them do your bidding, you wield tremendous power. SQL For Dummies, 5th Edition, can get you well on your way to harnessing the power of databases.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Discover how SQL:2003 handles images, XML files, and more Use SQL to build databases, keep them safe, and access their informationRelationships are everything, especially when it comes to databases – so if you work with them, form a relationship with this book. It helps you use SQL to build databases, protect them from corruption, store and retrieve what you need, handle nonrelational data, and even swap information with nondatabase applications using XML.The Dummies WayExplanations in plain English”Get in, get out” informationIcons and other navigational aidsTear-out cheat sheetTop ten listsA dash of humor and fun About the Author Allen G. Taylor is a 30-year veteran of the computer industry and the author of 30 books, including Cruise for Free, SQL For Dummies, 8th Edition, Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies, Database Development For Dummies, Access Power Programming with VBA, and SQL All-In-One For Dummies, Second Edition. He lectures internationally on astronomy, databases, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He also teaches database development and Crystal Reports through a leading online education. For the latest news on Allen’s activities, check out DatabaseCentral.Info or his blog at moontube.wordpress.com.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I like to start projects with simple concepts and a few examples to get off the ground. Well, this book does just that. Unfortunately, I would also like to have some examples of input and output. I chose this book because it was not database specific, as I am converting files from an Informix database, through a filter, to a flat file, for later conversion to an Oracle database, with a different structure. Unfortunately, this book (being universal) has no universal explanation as to how to get information from a flat-file in or out of the database. First, you have to find the term they use, not ASCII, not flat, not import, not export, not not not. The term is found in chapter 7 “foreign.” The explanation on how to do this is to “…turn to one of the professional data translation services.” Great, just what I wanted to know.

⭐This is a book that I really wish that I’d had when I first started doing a web application that was to use an Access database for the backend data. I looked at a lot of Access books, but none of them went into Access SQL. For that alone this book is worth five stars.This book starts with a bit of discussion on the fundamentals of a relational database, but not too much. After all, this is covered in all the Access books. It quickly gets into the fundamentals of SQL itself.I was a bit concerned when he started using the Microsoft graphical design tools to create the database, but he quickly went into using SQL CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE commands. From there on he went on to a reasonable complete but elementary discussion on using most the the rest of SQL.You gotta have a few complaints, so:There is discussion in the book, including a list of reserved words for SQL:2003. But Access doesn’t talk SQL:2003. It doesn’t even talk SQL:92, it’s an extended SQL:89. A list of Access reserved words would have been nice.He doesn’t talk about the two database engines in Access, Jet and MSDE; and these two engines speak very different dialects of SQL.

⭐I have read several books in the Dummies series and found them all excellent, so when it was time to learn SQL for a programming project I got this one immediately.Unfortunately, SQL for Dummies, turned out to be that absolute worst technical book I have ever laid eyes on.It jumps from topic to topic without ever really explaining anything. It uses examples that are unecessarily complex — I get the feeling his examples just come from years of working with databases, rather than a desire to illustrate any particular thing — and the examples are never explained. Over and over, there will be a snippet of SQL code used as an example, and I will wonder, “what does this or that part of the statement do?” But he never explains anything. He just throws it out there and then moves on.Dummies books always have a conversational tone, but the tone in this book is overly hokey and just reads like meaningless filler; all the more frustrating because there isn’t really any content that it’s filling in between.All I wanted was the basics of database design and interaction, an enumeration of the commands used for creating and interacting with databases and why some actions are useful and for what, and examples throughout of how one would do typical things. Instead I got an intolerable and incoherent ramble.

⭐This book was shipped to us in a very short period of time. We were very pleased with this purchase.

⭐A book dealing with a technically complex subject like SQL needs to have good code examples that the reader can repeat and play around with, followed by questions which embed the knowledge and ensure the reader is understanding the material. If you want an entirely theoretical overview of SQL this book might be useful but if you want to sit down and start using it work with databases then look somewhere else.

⭐Too cutesy, lacking in real content.

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