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Monday, November 07, 2011

Wildly Over-ambitious Book Title of the Week

One of my co-workers has on his desk "Teach yourself SQL in 10 minutes". Yes, it is a SAMS book.

According to Ben Forta, the author, it is one of the best selling SQL books of all time. Not surprisng: who could resist a title like that?

I like his emphasis on getting stuff done. Even so, I think ten minutes is just about long enough to decide whether to pronounce it "sequel" or "ess queue ell".
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3 comments:

  1. Colin 't Hart7 November 2011 at 05:11:00 GMT-8

    Love this post's title!

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  2. Jeff Hunter7 November 2011 at 06:24:00 GMT-8

    I say "ess queue ell" for the language and "mysequel" for the db. Is that a character flaw?

    my word: hollo - oddly appropriate.

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  3. Joel Garry7 November 2011 at 15:33:00 GMT-8

    ...and contents content specific to IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Sybase Adapative Server.

    But does it cover the fast=true parameter?

    word: proto

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