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Celko used to post on usenet. I was looking to see if had anything useful to say and someone asked what books he recommended. He replied: "The real trick is to
by davidmathers 18y ago
Celko used to post on usenet. I was looking to see if had anything useful to say and someone asked what books he recommended. He replied:
"The real trick is to spend some time with a good theory book first (I like my DATA & DATABASES), so you have an overview of RDBMS concepts. It makes the language much easier. Can you imagine trying to larn Fortran without knowing algebra?
I like Rick van der Lans book for a language reference and intro. Then move on to Hernandez and Viescas. And finish up with my stuff."
Rick has a book specifically for MySQL:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131497359/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131497359/
- davidmathers 18y agoOh! These might be interesting. Charles Peirce was Tedd Codd's teacher and clearly had a big influence on his thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Mathematics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Mathematics And, in the beginning there were 2 different teams at IBM trying to implement Ted Codds ideas. The ISBL team stuck faithfully to Codds ideas and the Sequel team kind of bastardized them. But SQL won in the marketplace. Hugh Darwen is still bitter: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/HAVING-A-Blunderful-Time.html http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/HAVING-A-Blunderful-T...