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📣 rohindaswani

Best book to learn about SQL and databases?


Best book to learn about SQL and databases?


  👤 jugjug Accepted Answer ✓
To add to suggestions of others, the SQL Antipatterns was also an insigtful read about basic pitfalls of db design.

I have also found first chapters from Designing Data Intensive Applications helpful to get context around sql/nosql dbs.


👤 FroshKiller
I like Practical SQL from No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/practicalSQL

I didn't learn from the book myself, but I read it to evaluate it as a teaching tool for juniors and wound up recommending it.


👤 holden_nelson
I took Neil Sainsbury’s Mastery with SQL course and would recommend it.