Barnes & Noble is running an in-store promotion through March 12, a 30% discount on select "Sams Teach Yourself" titles. And my Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is included in this promotion.
Every edition of every SQL book I have written has been translated into other languages. And as per this blog post , it looks like the 4th edition of my Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is now available in Korean.
My little Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes is my best-selling title, it has sold over 1/4 million copies in English, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, has created spin-off titles focused on specific DBMSs, and has even become a textbook in numerous colleges and universities...
MariaDB is a fork (offshoot) of MySQL, one of the most popular database management systems in the world. MariaDB was created by the creator of MySQL to address some of the limitations and shortcomings in MySQL, and is intended to be a drop in replacement for MySQL as well. At the request of Monty...
At the request of Monty Widenius, creator of MySQL and now MariaDB , I ported my MySQL Crash Course to create a new book entitled MariaDB Crash Course . The book won't be out for a couple of months, but it is now available for pre-order .
I've been doing quite a bit of work with MariaDB , a drop-in replacement for MySQL (forked from the MySQL codebase by Monty Widenius, the creator of MySQL). One issue I ran into is that the current Windows installer does not create the Windows service that you generally would want to use. And...
A reader just pointed out to me that my my Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is in Amazon.com's Top 10 lists in the databases , SQL , DBMSs , and databases categories. It's also #1 in the Relational Databases category! Cool! :-)
At the request of a reader, I created an OpenOffice Base version of the example database used in my Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes . The file can be downloaded from the book page. To use this, you'll obviously need OpenOffice . And as it turns out, Base is actually a really nice database to...
I just received three new translations of my books, two into Simplified Chinese and one into Korean: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL In 10 Minutes is now available in Simplified Chinese MySQL Crash Course is now available in Simplified Chinese Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is...
I've discussed SQL injection attacks several times on this blog. But, judging by how many sites fall victim to these attacks, it's one of those topics that we can never discuss enough. Which is why I want to point out a new Adobe Developer Center article by Adobe Enterprise Developer Support...