Re: Looking for good reference materials for SQL programming.

"Peter J. Schoenster" <peter(at)schoenster(dot)com> writes:

> Someone else wrote:
> > There is a /very/ good book, whose exact name escapes me at the
> > moment, but you should be able to find it on Amazon if you perform a
> > search for 'SQL' and 'Practical'.
>
> That is probably Practical SQL :) ... worth a read but unless I missed
> something I didn't see where it helped with design (does help with SQL
> though).

That's the one :-)

I think (the actual book is currently at work) it's the second
edition. There appeared to be a couple of chapters near the beginning
which took someone who had a real world problem, but little knowledge
of relational database design, through the process of coming up with
a correctly normalised solution.

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Pete

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