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Title: Full of error; not for self-study
Review: This book might be OK - in an instructor lead class; unfortunately one cannot rely on it for self-study; it is full of typos and outright errors( e.g. Hour 10 Quiz answer 2 tells you that "The HAVING clause can be used without a GROUP BY clause" !!! which is, of course, impossible...Also, the book pretends to be SQL-dialect neutral, in reality it is so ORACLE biased that some of its very basic SQL statements would not compile in Sybase or MS SQL Server...I am a DBA (MS SQL Server/Sybase/ORACLE) with 5 years of experience; I looked into the book only because a friend of mine asked me for advice after struggling with it for couple weeks. Disappointing, to put it mildly.
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