| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | SF Postgres <sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: bookpool.com |
| Date: | 2002-12-11 01:15:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20021211011550.GC11869@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:28:37PM -0800, David Alban wrote:
> Greetings!
¡Hola!
> Bookpool has a sale on O'Reilly books: 43% off trade titles for
> a limited time...
Sounds like a cool deal!
> I'm in the market for a beginner's book on postgresql. Here's what
> a search on their site turned up. Would anyone care to recommend
> one in particular over the others? My background is that of a unix
> sysadmin and shell/perl tools programmer (if that makes a
> difference). I have no practical database experience.
Dunno about the PostgreSQL books, but one book that's *really* good on
the basics of RDBMS's is Oracle: The Complete Reference. There are
little syntactic differences for things like joins, but the meat is
all there :)
Cheers,
D
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