Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, 4th Edition

Introduction to the Fourth Edition

This book, like the first, second, and third editions before it, is for the working SQL programmer who wants to pick up some advanced programming tips and techniques. It assumes that the reader is an SQL programmer with a year or more of actual experience. This is not an introductory book, so let’s not have any gripes in the amazon.com reviews about that like we did with the prior editions.

The first edition was published 10 years ago, and became a minor classic among working SQL programmers. I have seen copies of this book on the desks of real programmers in real programming shops almost everywhere I have been. The true compliment are the Post-it^® notes sticking out of the top. People really use it often enough ...