On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:31 AM, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basic SQL isn't that hard. Learn CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, > UPDATE, and DELETE syntax. That's enough for most simple > applications.
And then learn more advanced SQL: joins, nested selects, pivot tables and stored procedures. You can do a lot of processing "inside" the database which cuts down on data running over the wire. SQL is one of the areas I wish I had mastered (much) earlier in my career --greg.
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