Partly OT - Database Programming textbook

   Some list members may be adjunct or full-time faculty members and interested by the fact that I'm currently working on a 450-page textbook on Database Programming (title "SQL Success", subtitle "Database Programming Proficiency") that I will publish under the name of my company in a few months - the target is the "Database Fundamentals/Database Programming" undergraduate and continuous education courses (besides Oracle I cover SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 - and SQLite). I'm short on theory and long on correctness and efficiency; my idea of a successful database instruction isn't being able to parrot the definition of 23 normal forms and requiring a procedure and five cursors to perform 20 times slower what can be done in a single query.
The book is quite solid on SQL, I can say; some stuff can probably be considered advanced (those of you who don't teach may wish to refer their favorite Java developers to it ...)   The book will probably be published around July (a few things to finish) but I am beginning to raise awareness about it, as well as the 1,000+ slides that come with it for instructors (the kind of slides of my Youtube videos, not the dreadful Word-outline-to-bullet-points slides with a static diagram here and there too often provided by textbook publishers), and the eco-system I am building around it (which includes an SQL sandbox suitable for online classes).

  All details, including chapter samples (posted as they return from proof-reading), on http://edu.konagora.com; there is a special section for instructors with full chapters and a lot of additional stuff, exercises, etc. (requires a college email address and I check manually that you are a faculty member and not a student). The SQL sandbox is publicly accessible, if you need to quickly test SQL developers during job interviews ...

Hope that some of you will find my efforts useful ...

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Stephane Faroult
RoughSea Ltd <http://www.roughsea.com>
Konagora <http://www.konagora.com>
RoughSea Channel on Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/user/roughsealtd>

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Apr 02 2013 - 14:16:13 CEST