Customer Review: This book is in tutorial style, so you learn by doing, which is great! I purchased this book for my administrative assistant course in school and it is easy to follow, easy to understand, and really helps you learn Microsoft Office Access. Even if you have used Access before you will still learn a... more info
Customer Review: This is the book I used to introduce myself to data mining as graduate student in computer science. At the time I thought it was a very well organized and self contained book. Since then I have been studying machine learning full time and I still use this book to get really great explanations of key... more info
Customer Review: This book covers various "flavors" of SQL, but not all of them. This was a "recommended" reference book for a college-level Introduction to SQL course. I will keep the book around as a technical reference even though I discovered it was a lot easier to find PostgreSQL syntax information by typing a... more info
Customer Review: This book focuses on the basics, leaving theory, history and more advanced topics to Steve's first book, Data Modeler's Workbench. Steve writes in a very easy to read style. Throughout the text, he provides exercises designed to get the reader thinking, with references to his Web site for insight... more info
Customer Review: Would not order from individual again, seller did not supply tracking number and it took two weeks to obtain book. Seller was not honest enough to advise the book was not complete. Had to obtain second half from publisher. Dishonest seller..........
Customer Review: I work with a lot of school leavers and people outside IT and often have to advise them on how to empower themselves in IT in the right way. Surely SQL and databases are one of the first topics people should understand. HTML was also high on the list. With this book, the author has combined all of... more info
Customer Review: This book was more than I expected. The layout of the book makes it very easy to grasp the concepts the author is presenting. He explains a topic and then there is a simple exercise to reinfoce the concept. It is basic and doesn't go very deeply into the topics, but that's what I liked. I liked... more info
Customer Review: If you are considering this book, please check out the books website (I don't know if you can insert hyperlinks but the website URL is the books title dot com) and look at the errata which is a section devoted to errors. There are soooo many errors that they have to categorize them into three... more info
Customer Review: This book would be better labeled "Beginning Databases with Postgresql - From Novice to Amateur with a few Provisos." This book is good for getting you to the stage where you have some basic confidence in using PostgreSQL (an excellent database). Do NOT expect to be able to learn what it is you... more info