Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has established itself as the gold standard for introductory SQL books, offering a fast-paced accessible tutorial to the major themes and techniques involved in applying the SQL language. Forta's examples are clear and his writing style is crisp and concise. As with earlier editions, this revision includes coverage of current versions of all major commercial SQL platforms. New this time around is coverage of MySQL, and PostgreSQL. All examples have been tested against each SQL platform, with incompatibilities or platform distinctives called out and explained.

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Summary: Well written, fun, and straight forward
Comment: I bought this book to learn SQL for advancement at work. Once I downloaded the database tables from the author's website, the chapters are very easy to follow along with. The chapters really do take 10 minutes. I do a couple a day. I find this way of learning doesn't overpower the brain. Great book!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Perfect!
Comment: The Title May Be A Bit Off Unless You Say 10 min per lesson.

but other than that this book got me using mySQL very fast.

not anything too indepth within a days time but i could create, view, and manipulate within about a day. i havent even read but the first 2-3 chapters Lol.

i'd say this book on SQL is a must.
its also small so its portable.

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Summary: Everything you need to know.
Comment: I bought this book to improve my knowledge in Access since it uses SQL for it's queries. Great and quick way to learn the language. The book is organized in a such a way that you will build a strong foundations in less than 30 minutes.

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Summary: Best Book For Beginners!
Comment: This book is excellent! I am a Web developer who has seen SQL code from other developers in my sites for years. I didn't understand any of it. I bought this book in the hopes of being able to work with database information myself.

In just a few minutes of reading the book, the light suddenly came on and everything became much clearer! I am happily writing my own SQL scripts now and I went through half the book in one night and the other half the next day! I've never learned so quickly from a book.

I especially appreciated that the author provides links to the SQL scripts you'll need throughout the course. And the appendix that described how to execute the scripts depending on which database you are using is fantastic!

If you need to learn SQL quickly this is THE book for you.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Clear, Informative, and Useful
Comment: The book builds on the concepts of using SQL linearly, and quite well. There is almost no point where the author must reference a future concept in order to cover the current topic. The book was logically arragned, easy to read, and successfully taught me how to query an SQL database.

The final few chapters moved a little too fast, and didn't really teach how to accomplish the more in depth topics of transactions and procedures, but they were well explained at a high level.

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