{"id":499,"date":"2010-12-04T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bar-solutions.com\/weblog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2010-12-04T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:04:13","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] SQL Pocket Guide By Jonathan Gennick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"SQL Pocket Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9781449394097\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" title=\"cat\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cat\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/bar-solutions.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/img\/Bookreview\/OReilly\/SQL%20Pocket%20Guide\/cat.gif\" width=\"146\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> I started reading this book by <a title=\"Jonathan Gennick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/au\/548\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Gennick<\/a> about a week ago. After a couple of<br \/>\nchapters I realized this book is more a reference than a book you<br \/>\nshould read from A through Z. I am really an Oracle guy. I think I<br \/>\nknow a lot about the PL\/SQL and I think I know a lot about SQL as<br \/>\nwell. It&#8217;s fun to see how much of this knowledge can be applied to<br \/>\nother databases as well. This reference is a nice book to get ideas on<br \/>\nhow other databases help us developers and maybe even create some of<br \/>\nthe functions in the Oracle environment.<br \/>\n  <br \/>This book shows most of the functions available in all databases and<br \/>\nhow they differ from environment to environment. It describes just<br \/>\nabout all the functions you will ever need in your day to day work.<br \/>\nWhen you need to do something that is not described in this book, then<br \/>\nyou are probably better off by diving into the specific documentation<br \/>\nfor your preferred database.<br \/>\n  <br \/>As said, this book is a good reference for your basic needs. If you<br \/>\nneed to make application database independent (which IMHO is a really<br \/>\nbad idea, but that&#8217;s something else) you can use this reference to see<br \/>\nwhat is supported in all the different RDBMS&#8217;s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started reading this book by Jonathan Gennick about a week ago. After a couple of chapters I realized this book is more a reference than a book you should read from A through Z. I am really an Oracle guy. I think I know a lot about the PL\/SQL and I think I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-oreilly","category-oracle","category-sql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bar-solutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}