SQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide To SQL

I purchased a variety of beginner books to learn SQL. This book is the most useful and clearest learner's guide I found. I have been able to use it to create working queries without having much previous background in SQL. Other "beginner's" guides either required too much technical knowledge or were not really clear to me. Just as a note: I had purchased the previous version of this book but the new version is much clearer and easier to read.

I am taking a huge leap from a BS in Business Mgmt to MS in Business Analytics. I sought out simple review because the college text over complicates the SQL syntax. This book (I bought both the paperback & Audible versions to follow along) did the trick & it will remain a treasured reference as I progress through.

Wasn’t what I expected, but still valuable information for anyone going down the SQL path. Great to refer to or freshen up on terms and ideologies.

I needed to get up to speed quickly on working with databases and this guide was perfect. Good explanation and very concise; "short" can sometimes be a bad thing, but in this case it was a virtue that it gets right to the point and told me everything I needed to know.

The book is pretty short and probably covers information that would be explain on any tutorial site. It's nice to have the paper reference though. There were a few typos and the examples were average. The book accomplished what it intended to do - explain simple SQL queries. However, $10 seemed actually overpriced. I would say the book is worth $5.99 or $6.99. My review basically sums up the book - It's okay. Nothing exceptional for its price (compared to some books that really give a lot of information for $20 or so). I wouldn't recommend or tell anyone to avoid it. I'm neutral.

Definitely NOT worth the price, in my opinion! I should have paid closer attention to what I was buying. If I had a good excuse for returning it, other than my own failure to pay closer attention to what I was buying, I would have returned it. It's only my opinion, but I have NO idea how this book could honestly garner so many positive ratings, especially for the price you pay for it. If it were priced around $3.95, I'd say you get your money's worth, but even then I think I would have been disappointed. Unless the price goes down, I personally would not recommend buying this book.

This helped a person who did not know SQL learn it. She won the high school national championship in SQL programming 7 months later. However, other books which are more advanced did most of the work. But this one got the start.

This is a great books for beginner's at SQL. It shows many commands not often found in beginner books. I used it as a companion to hands-on serious of introduction classes for my co-workers.

Useless

This is good book and also simple if there is a beginner who want to get wide overview in SQL i recommend this book but there is a Lille complicated Query (statements that SQL uses to retrieve data) like joints so don't confuse them just get the concept u will be master later on those query's if u go in Advance.

It's a great introductory book for anyone starting from scratch and wanting to get a better understanding of what SQL is and what it can do. It also includes additional online resources.

This is a nifty little book that does what it says on the tin...It really is a "Quickstart Guide", "The Simplified Beginner's Guide To SQL", If you've, say, recently encountered Sql - perhaps like myself, while learning about building web sites - it's possible that explaining how it works was buried amongst other stuff, so to speak, and you only half-grasped how it all works. This book excellently covers the basics, all in one place, with no distracting references to anything other than how to store, retrieve and manipulate data in a Sql database. It perfectly details that the key thing is getting the syntax of your queries right for the Sql database server to understand, and be able to respond to, what you are trying to do. In building web sites that store and use data in a Sql database I have found it invaluable because, no matter how fancy your web site building environment, you still have to use this Sql query language at some point if your data is stored in a Sql database. It was worth the price for me just to discover how easy it is to change the column title names of a web site grid view simply by using the 'alias/as clause' feature when extracting column/field information from a particular Sql table...Something a search on google had revealed others using pages of tortured code to achieve the same result!

Quick start guide.