Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties

By Joe Celko

The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for database retrieval, and if you need to access, update, or utilize data in a modern database management system, you will need SQL to do it. The Second Edition of Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties covers two new sets of extensions over three entirely new chapters and expounds upon the changes that have occurred in SQL standards since the previous edition's publication. Benefit from mastering the challenging aspects of these database applications in SQL as taught by Joe Celko, one of the most-read SQL authors in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123877334
• ISBN13: 9780123877338
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

I am disappoint

Too theoretical. Juggled a few examples, shifting from one to the next when convenient for the narrative rather than when the topic was sufficiently covered. Not enough figures and graphs to illustrate abstractions. I would have preferred a top-down description and a single complex model I could reverse-engineer than a dozen bottom-up examples I'm supposed to mentally integrate into a cohesive understanding. Would probably be a fine textbook for a college-level course where you had an instructor to provide the top-down and the objective of building a working model by the end of the term, but a poor choice for autodidacts interested in the particulars of schemas and algorithms for manipulating them.