Alan Beaulieu
Auteur de Learning SQL
A propos de l'auteur
Alan Beaulieu has been designing, building, and implementing custom database applications for over 25 years. He's the coauthor of Mastering Oracle SQL (O'Reilly) and has written an online course on SQL for the University of California. Alan runs his own consulting company that specializes in afficher plus database design and development for financial services and telecommunications. afficher moins
Œuvres de Alan Beaulieu
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- Date de naissance
- 20th c. CE
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Cornell University (Engineering)
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- Œuvres
- 3
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- 328
- Popularité
- #72,311
- Évaluation
- 3.8
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- ISBN
- 28
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- 2
I have a few minor niggles. Firstly, there are a few places where the data in the version of the DB that I downloaded from the website seems to diverge from the version used in the book (most notably in the employee start dates), so a few of the queries don't produce the same results. Secondly, there are a few topics (such as user-defined variables) that get sneaked into some of the examples and exercise solutions without a proper explanation in the text (at least not one that I could find, having read the entire book fairly carefully and consulted the index). Thirdly, the book talks about MySQL 6.0 as the current version, while in February 2010 (some months after it was published) the most up-to-date version I could find was 5.5 - evidently 6.0 was pulled at the Alpha stage of development and has not yet been reintroduced (this is not a major problem, as everything covered in the book seems to work fine with MySQL 5). Finally, it's slightly Windows-centric as it does a couple of times refer to "your Windows box" and never mentions any other operating systems apart from a couple of references to mainframes. Fortunately I know my way round Linux well enough not to be phased by the lack of installation instructions for MySQL, but it could be an issue for less experienced users of non-Windows OSes.… (plus d'informations)