Just to drop my $.02 in on this.. I started reading the 1st version of
Pauls' MySQL book online a week or so back using my account over at
'Safari', once I read a little and decided that I was genuinely
interested in this MySQL 'thing', I went over to Barnes and Noble with
intentions of getting a hard copy of the 2nd edition of this book..
well.. I ended up leaving the store with a copy of 'Mastering MySQL' by
Sybex instead. I returned that book yesterday and picked up the 2nd
Edition of MySQL :-). I initially chose the 'Mastering MySQL' book
pretty much due to one reason, and that the size of the MySQL' book was
a little intimidating. But once I got home and started reading the
Sybex book I realized why Pauls' book is so long, it is impossible to
cover the amount of content necessary to get a good grasp for Mysql
without using a lot of paper :-). The Sybex book made a lot of
assumptions and didn't go into what I felt was very thorough detail on
any subject (my idea is that this is a great book for the experienced DB
admin), while Paul takes the time to explain each subject and every
detail very thoroughly.
Thanks Paul, I just started this book but I'm already very impressed.
Again.. all of this is just my $.02 and I am VERY new at all of this DB
stuff
Jeff
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-Original Message-
From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Asif Iqbal; Ralph Guzman
Cc: 'Fawad Siddiqui'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Books advice
At 21:04 -0400 7/31/03, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>I just ordered this book
>
>MySQL
>The definitive guide to using, programming,
>and administering MySQL 4
>by Paul Dubois
>
>I found it more technical than MySQL cook book by Paul Dubois
Comparison information:
http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-book-comparison.php
This page also includes links to each book's home page that
provides other information about the book such as ISBN.
>
>
>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Ralph Guzman wrote:
>
>> Here are two other books that I would recommend, specially the first
>> one:
>>
>> * SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data
Manipulation in
>> SQL
>> by Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas
>>
>> Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming
>> by Joe Celko
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Fawad Siddiqui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:06 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Books advice
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to learn about RDBMS, namely mysql of course, but know
>> really nothing in this area, so have to learn about; RDBMS, SQL and
>> mysql from scratch.
>>
>> In this regard, if anyone knows of any books they think would start
me
>> off on the right foot, I would be very grateful.
>>
>> I have done some searching on Amazon, with the following results.
>>
>> 1.Beginning Databases with MySQL
>> by Richard Stones, Neil Matthew
>>
>> 2.MySQL Cookbook
>> by Paul DuBois
>>
>> 3.Managing and Using MySQL
>>by George Reese, et al
>>
>> 4.Inside Relational Databases
>> by Mark Whitehorn, Bill Marklyn
>>
>> 5.Database Design
>> by Ryan K. Stephens, Ronald R. Plew
>>
>> 6.The Practical SQL Handbook: Using SQL Variants
>> by Judith S. Bowman, et al
>>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for all your help.
>>
>>
>> Fawad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>--
>Asif Iqbal
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>There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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