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Title: Yawn
Review: If I had stopped at this book, I'd have never gotten interested in databases. Pick up Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta (there's a 2nd edition out now) and also SQL for Dummies by Allen Taylor. It's the best Dummies book ever done and Taylor is creative, thoughtful and not afraid to show it. Avoid the other TY books on SQL other than Forta's. Once you learn about SQL you can start getting into the particulars of Oracle, but not with these awful Oracle Press doorstops. Plus, with good SQL knowledge, the particular DBMS seems less important. I really don't care if it's DB2, Oracle, Sybase or SQL Server as long as I can talk to it. As for this book, yawn!
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