Which book is good to learn the fundamentals of SQL?

Hi Everyone,
I am preparing for the Exam-1Z0-051( Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I).
I want to know which of the following two books is best for preparation and covers each topic in great depths.
1. Oracle Database 11g SQL by Jason Price
2. Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference by Kevin Loney
I have no prior experience in SQL. Your guidance will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Deepika
Edited by: user12054553 on Jul 26, 2010 9:21 AM

Hi,
Here is a book that has gotten great reviews:
Oracle SQL By Example (4th Edition)
Alice Rischert, 2009
Publisher is Prentice-Hall.
ISBN-10: 0137142838
ISBN-13: 978-0137142835Unfortunately I do not have a copy, therefore this "recommendation" is from hearsay. It is very well regarded. Personally, I like to learn by example.
The remaining books I mention are not Oracle specific, (which depending on your viewpoint, could be a good thing)
I am using the following book to learn SQL:
SQL Cookbook
By Anthony Molinaro
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: December 2005
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-00976-3
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-600976-2 I recommend this book with some reservations. In many of the solutions he provides he relies on completely artificial relationships in the data (relying on anything but enforced relationships in the data is a very bad thing to do!). If you study the way I do then, those bad solutions are actually a good thing, reworking the poor solutions into something that is production worthy is an excellent exercise. Lastly, if you decided to learn using this book, you will need to read the Oracle manuals to supplement the information (good thing to do anyway.)
I have also used
The Practical SQL Handbook
By Judy S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson and Marcy Darnovsky
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing
ISBN: 0-201-62623-3I consider this book a very good book. Chapter 2 is probably the best short, succinct and lucid explanation I've read on how to design and normalize a database, why to index, not index on a column and, other fundamental concepts of database design. (I wish more DBAs had read that chapter :( .) The information on those topics is presented in a single chapter, yet, they do a better job at it than other books do in hundreds, if not thousand+, pages. Their explanation of the SQL language is good but slow paced for my taste. Still, chapter 2 alone is worth the price of the book.
Lastly, one thing I recommend is, don't learn just what the test requires. You want to KNOW your stuff. Passing the test is just a formality, be aware of what they will ask but, don't limit your acquisition of knowledge to the domain defined by test.
HTH and good luck,
John.

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