SQL Queries for Mere Mortals
by John L. Viescas · first published 2018
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…Starting Forth, Thinking Forth, and the Forth-83 standard Smalltalk-80 the Language Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (Codd 1970) plus SQL Queries for Mere Mortals for the practical.
on “Ask HN: Advice for a prisoner learning to program” ↗…al). Here's a few books I think are worth reading, not in any particular order of prevalence, but loosely categorized Databases: High Performance MySQL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449314287/ SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321992474/ The Art of SQL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008945/ Networking: TCP/IP Illustrated: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201633469/wrichards...…
on “My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day” ↗…coming close behind. I'm also working through Test-Driven Development: By Example with my wife as we have time. For SQL, I read Grokking Relational Database Design by Qiang Hao last winter, and I started SQL Queries for Mere Mortals by John Viescas this week. Sadly, my flub with "left inner join" was not a joke. For OOP, I've been on a whirlwind tour: OOA&D With Applications by Booch et al., Object Thinking by David West, POODR…
on “Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship” ↗I started studying SQL when I was a freshman in high school circa 2000, the book I had was called SQL Queries for Mere Mortals. Is this a play on that, or was that title an homage to something even earlier?
on “Differential Dataflow for Mere Mortals” ↗