[Nottingham][Talk] *TODAY* Thur 18/01/07 Relational databases, SQL and PostgreSQL.

[Ovid]

--- Andy Davidson <andy at nosignal.org> wrote:

> 
> On 20 Jan 2007, at 00:41, Jonathan wrote:
> 
> > Hear hear! The talk has certainly provided me with adequate  
> > motivation to go shopping for a beginners book in relational  
> > databases. any suggestions?
> 
> Anything by CJ Date, but it will be *very* dry and difficult to read,
> unless you are fascinated by this stuff.
> 
> He recently did one on relational theory for O'Reilly, perhaps start 

> with that one.

The one for O'Reilly is definitely not too dry and technical compared
to other things Date has written, but it's also *not* a beginners book.
 It does assume that you understand normalization and a bit about how
databases work.

Cheers,
Ovid

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