Re: Partly OT - Database Programming textbook

From: Igor Neyman <igor.neyman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:30:18 -0400
Message-ID: <CAJoeKmsv2J-p6xn0oc767gqYns26=C9yLTew4_O+yjWsiJUh6w_at_mail.gmail.com>

Stephane,
Very interesting, especially considering that you cover not only Oracle "dialect" of SQL, but others (e.g. PostgreSQL) as well. Will there be an e-book version, or only printed?

Regards,
Igor Neyman

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Stéphane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>wrote:

> 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
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> Konagora <http://www.konagora.com>
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