Books on SQL

Bowman, Judith S., Sandra L. Emerson, and Marcy Darnovsky. The Practical SQL Handbook (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001.

Celko, Joe. Joe Celko’s SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005.

Date, C. J., and Hugh Darwen. A Guide to the SQL Standard (4th ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Gruber, Martin. SQL Instant Reference (2nd ed.). Alameda, CA: Sybex Inc., 2000.

Melton, Jim, and Alan R. Simon. Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2006.

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