ENGLISH

PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts

By Bruce Momjian

Book information

Publisher
Pearson Education
Year
2000
ISBN
9780201703313, 0201703319
Open Library ID
OL7408523M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2756769 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
488\488
Topic
Computers Databases
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

This book took me from being a SQL novice (let alone a PostgreSQL novice) to being able to being able to use PostgreSQL for business apps. I'm not quite sure why some reviewers knocked it. It has much more content than the FAQ, good examples and a reference section. One reviewer knocked the reference section, claiming the book was half full of appendices... in fact the reference section is what you most often go to the book for after you've worked through the basic concepts in the first section. I think the layout is slightly odd - the examples of commands and their results are grouped together in sections that are usually a page or two ahead of the text that explains them. So you spend a bit of time flicking pages to see examples. But once you get the hang of this style it's not exactly the biggest pain in the world. I think it's a very good book, one that took me from being a SQL beginner yet is still useful as a day to day reference. Lee

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