Randle_Revar's Journal: [Ask the Circle] Introductory DB/SQL book?

I am taking a beginning Database/SQL course, and while the teacher seem to be pretty good, the book (which he did not pick out) does not seem to be that good. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good basic book (or books) for Databases and/or SQL. Thanks in advance.

O'Reilly is usually good

[WillAffleckUW]

although I have a fondness by the original works by Dade and others, you can't go wrong with the camel.

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[Randle_Revar]

For some reason O'Reilly didn't occur to me. And after some Googling, I decided you meant "Date" instead of "Dade". His stuff looks good and very in-depth. Thanks for the tips!

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[jawtheshark]

I like the one we used at University. I'm not at home, but reply to this comment so that I think of looking it up ;-) It covers basic SQL, normalization, locking and a lot of stuff on the theoretical level... That last one is probably not what you have in mind, but I still look back into it from time to time.

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[Randle_Revar]

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Thanks for recommending __(insert name here)___ !

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[jawtheshark]

Funny, I was in front of TV and though... Hmmm, I need to recommend that book, I'm going to reply to my reply but you already replied ;-)

Fundamentals of Database Systems - Elmasri/Navathe - Second Edition - ISBN 0-8053-17353-8

Link to Amazon (5th edition) [amazon.com]