• Title Essential SQL
• Author(s) Krzysztof Kowalczyk
• Publisher: Programming Books
• License(s): CC BY-SA 3.0
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• Language: English
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Book Description

This book written to provide clear and concise explanation of topics for programmers both starting to learn the Structured Query Language (SQL) as well as those diving in more complex topics. Most examples are linked to online playground that allows you to change the code and re-run it.

You can also quickly navigate to desired content using table of content on the left and search at the top (tip: you can navigate search using only a keyboard with '/' shortcut to start a search).

• Krzysztof Kowalczyk worked at Microsoft, Palm, BitTorrent, OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco) and a few small Silicon Valley startups.

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