Books like Sams teach yourself SQL in 21 days by Ryan K. Stephens

A practical, 7th‑edition guide that teaches SQL from the ground up, covering design, security, data retrieval, and new SQL/XML 2008 features across Access, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes—2nd Edition is a hands‑on tutorial that teaches SQL fundamentals and advanced techniques through bite‑size, 10‑minute lessons.

With more than 4 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. Known for its speed, high reliability, and ease of use, MySQL is rapidly becoming a low-cost alternative to high-priced, high-maintenance database systems from Oracle, IMB and Microsoft-and it already has more users than any of these more established proprietary databases. The MySQL Language Reference is the only official guide to the MySQL language and programming APIs. Written by the creators of MySQL, and edited by the highly respected MySQL authors, the MySQL Language Reference is designed for database administrators and programmers who need a reliable, detailed reference to every part of the MySQL language and all the available APIs.

Updated for the latest database management systems, this introductory guide will get you up and running with SQL quickly. Whether you need to write database applications, perform administrative tasks, or generate reports, Learning SQL, Second Edition, will help you easily master all the SQL fundamentals. Each chapter presents a self-contained lesson on a key SQL concept or technique, with numerous illustrations, annotated examples, and exercises to let you practice the skills you learn.

Oracle DBA Automation Scripts provides valuable, time-tested scripts for any DBA to automate the daily administration activity of an Oracle database. It provides scripts for Space management, Backup and recovery, tuning, and other handy scripts (locking, user reports, resource usage etc.), useful for troubleshooting everyday problems. The book highlights the need to identify and fix potential problems before they can cause loss of data, and result in loss of business and user productivity. Our book outperforms the competition by providing more scripts and listing and explaining the syntax and implementation of each script for UNIX and Windows platforms.

A reader's first book for learning SQL, the structured query language for most major database systems. Teaches SQL quickly and easily for those with little or no programming experience. The end user's path to proficiency in SQL. New code examples written to an open source database like MySQL; avoids complexity and teaches practical basics. Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Third Edition presents the key features of SQL (Structured Query Language) in an easy to understand format with updated code examples, notes, diagrams, exercises and quizzes. New material covers more information on transactions, constructs, embedded databases, and object-oriented programming. In this edition, the authors include examples based on a database like MySQL, a very popular open source database. Ryan Stephens and Ron Plew are President and Vice President of Perpetual Technologies, Inc, where their duties include Oracle® database administration and consulting and training in Oracle, SQL and UNIX. They have both been teaching at the college level for over five years as adjunct professors at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. Both are Oracle Certified Professionals. Ryan and Ron have co-authored the following successful books: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Second Edition, 0672318997, Sams, 3/00, and Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days, Third Edition, 0672316749, Sams, 12/99.