SQL Best tips/Do's and Dont's

Hi All
Can anyone has presentation material about whats the best practices to write SQL Queries in 9i. Like we should not have function on the column on left side of the where clause(it will not use index or else we need functional indexes.)
If anyone has such king of Do's and Dont's for SQL Please tell me the location or mail it across to me. my id is [email protected]
Rgds
Rohit

I agree.
Even more, I'm finding The Art of SQL (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/artofsql/) and the SQL Cookbook (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlckbk/) to be useful. The former goes into the Why for the various dos and donts, and the latter goes into how to do the Dos in different dialects.

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