To learn SQL, I bought a book called “SQL in 24 hours”, It is a nice little book that attempts to teach this language’s rudiments to “the rest of us”.
So what is this SQL? SQL is the language that allow us to communicate with a relational database. There are different “dialects” that originated or evolved from this language depending on the implementation. Some of them are Oracle SQL, SAP, PostgresSQL, MySQL.
I will be mastering MySQL since my very nice boyfriend downloaded and installed this application on my computer. For those people that are wondering why I’m using MySQL and not let’s say Oracle? The answer is MySQL is free!
By the way I did forget to say that I will focus my learning of SQL around accounting. I personally think that learning the language of database helps my job or at least makes my life a little bit easier. I cannot imagine doing what i do without MS Access.
Tomorrow, I will start my first lesson on MySQL… exciting, huh?