make sure to buy the SECOND edition of Joe's books, some major errors from the
first version are fixed in the second, plus some more information.
scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
>
>
>>After having gotten my DB up and running and doing what it should I am
>>now getting to the point where I understand my data and have some
>>somewhat complicated queries I would like to run against it.
>>
>>Unfortunately I'm having trouble with coming up with the SQL queries
>>that retrieve the data I want.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend some newsgroups or sites where questions on
>>constructing SQL queries are welcomed?
>>
>>Since these would be purely SQL questions and not really related to
>>postgres I they don't really belong on the PG mailing list.
>
>
> There are also some on the web on places like dev shed and phpbuilder.
>
> PHPBuilder is a place where a lot of beginners go, especially MySQL
> beginners using PHP. devshed is a little more advanced, but there's still
> some good novice areas too.
>
> My other recommendation would be to pick up a good SQL / Database theory
> book. If you're getting a feel for SQL then try J Celcko's "SQL for
> Smarties" and his other SQL books are pretty good too, and entertaining as
> well.
>
> And, if you just wanna read the archive of USENET past and such, you can
> use groups.google.com, look for comp.databases.postgresql
>
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