SQL 101 FAQ is Available

I noticed in the stats that I get from my web hosting site that a fair number of people get to my blog because of SQL questions that they’ve asked in search engines. This happened when I made SQL Primer available several months ago.

I’m not certain, however, that SQL Primer is the best resource for some of the questions I now see. A better book would be a prior one I wrote with co-author Alex Sirota and called Oracle SQL: 101 Frequently Asked Questions. It’s structured around answers to 121 of the most common problems that writers of SQL and SQL*Plus face when crafting ad hoc queries against Oracle databases.

For a computer book, however, this book is OLD. It was published in 1997, so I figured its useful days were history. But the search questions I now see in my web stats indicate the book would still serve as a helpful reference.

If you’re at all interested, the book is now available in the SQL 101 FAQ tab. You can download the entire book as a 5.1M pdf or you can download individual sections and chapters.