From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2011-02-14T02:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Choosing an office suite

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Bill Felton
<subscriptions@cagttraining.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Hilary Bailey wrote:
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>> Thanks Martin,
>> Can you refer a site where I can download SQL with its tutorial/guide?
>
> As Sherm pointed out, SQL is a language/product.  MySQL and Postgres are probably the easiest to come by, in that mySQL is available in a free edition (I think postgres is also).

SQLite and Firebird are worth a look too. I'd say to start with MySQL
because using it under windows is very well documented and there's a
community and GUI tools around it, but consider either Postgresql or
Firebird for your actual application, once you've got a bit of
experience in configuring and managing a database.

> For learning mySQL, I like Ben Rota's MySQL Crash Course, which can be had fairly inexpensively.  But there are countless titles that introduct/teach SQL.

Also http://sqlzoo.net/ is a very nice interactive SQL tutorial. Work
through it once you've read up on the basic concepts and syntax.

martin