On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:59:20AM +0100, Donna Robinson wrote:
>
> Filter fodder: query, sql
>
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 3:03 am, Nathaniel Mallet wrote:
> > I haven't read Managing and Using MySQL, but I do own (and read cover to
> > cover) MySQL and mSQL. While it's not a bad book, it's definitely not
> > for anyone wanting to do anything serious. It's about 460 pages that
> > covers *two* databases, plus references for half a dozen APIs, which
> > means they skim most topics.
>
> Yo,
>
> okay - but if you recall Gavin said "I am just starting out" - and that's why
> I recommended these books :-) and I think they are pretty good jumping-off
> points.
> Besides which, I don't think I agree about the "serious" bit - all beginners
> have to start somewhere. ( 'course, I was mad fool enough to jump in with
> just the online manual to hand ...)
I'd agree with the sentiment that it's not for those wishing to do
anything `serious' as the important topics of relational database
design & implementation are rather skimmed over eg. normalisation,
concurrency & such like. Hence I see a lot of posts to this list where
people have huge non-normalised tables with their resulting problems.
SQL itself and it's particular implementation is the easy bit, it's
the design that's the hard bit but it seems to be frequently ignored.
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