Re: books for beginners

Hi Vicky,
I don't know of any absolute beginner books but I can I suggest you play around with Microsoft Access and the query builder? It allows you to build the queries graphically then view the code and is a great and gentle introduction to SQL. Before you know it you'll be constructing complex crosstab structures, and once you paste the resulting code into a procedure every one thinks you're clever !

Hope this helps

Kind regards
Wayne McDermott

vicky wrote:

> Hi,
 

> can anybody recommend some books which deals with Oracle 8i for
> complete beginners. I've purchased several books already which claim
> to be for beginners but, I felt, still required previous knowledge
> i.e. Oracle 8i from scratch by Hotka. I would like a book which
> teaches SQL from the beginning and does not assume any prior knowledge
> of databasing.
 

> Any recommendations would be really appreciated.
 

> TKS
 
> Vicky

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