[Gllug] Introductions to Databases

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:38:27AM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> I need - and want - to learn about databases, and am looking for a 
> decent introductory text about them. Something general, not an 
> instruction manual, nor about a specific application. Perhaps a history 
> of their development. Any recommendations?

Echoing Ryan's reply partially, it might also be a good idea to learn
a particular relational database (in addition to reading about them).

If you do this, discount proprietary databases (ie. Oracle), and
things which are popular but aren't really databases (ie. MySQL).

That leaves you with PostgreSQL, which is an excellent relational
database *and* comes with copious online documentation, both a
tutorial and detailed technical docs:

  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/index.html

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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