Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties

by Joe Celko

Book Overview

The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558609202
• ISBN13: 9781558609204
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

I am disappoint

Too theoretical. Juggled a few examples, shifting from one to the next when convenient for the narrative rather than when the topic was sufficiently covered. Not enough figures and graphs to illustrate abstractions. I would have preferred a top-down description and a single complex model I could reverse-engineer than a dozen bottom-up examples I'm supposed to mentally integrate into a cohesive understanding. Would probably be a fine textbook for a college-level course where you had an instructor to provide the top-down and the objective of building a working model by the end of the term, but a poor choice for autodidacts interested in the particulars of schemas and algorithms for manipulating them.