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

Hi Michelle,
The book Mike recommended is a great reference, he recommended it to me last year and even though I was pretty familiar with using SQL, it helped to explain "why" things worked or didnt work. It's also written and organized in such a way that it's easy to read and absord. I have it handy still, so here's the ISBN: 0-201-44787-8