>Check out _The Practical SQL Handbook_ by Bowman, et al. It's a very good book.
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>-Mike

I'll look for that. Hopefully it's easier to read than my database class textbook. We went into SQL a little there, but I didn't really get it. Now that I'm using them, selects make more sense to me. Plus the ones I'm using aren't as crazy and convoluted as the ones in the book.

That book had stuff like "Find the average weight of all patrons named joe who checked out a book with less than 300 pages by an author who also has a book in the Seattle library." Crazy stuff!

That class did more to scare me away from database programming than it taught me. But now that I'm working with them I don't find them quite so scary.

Thanks,