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vi, how to exit vi part made me laugh. Joke aside, the basics of SQL can be learned in a very short time. Before fancy ORMs all novice programmers managed to get by using SQL in big-ridden PHP projects ;). I for example, got my introduction from querying a national database leak and than writing a simple blog with tricks I've learned from sqlzoo.