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What is this SQL?

25 September 2007 (Tuesday) 7:45 PM by giovanna

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?

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SQL adventure

24 September 2007 (Monday) 6:56 PM by giovanna

I don’t think I ever liked going to “technology classes”. I remember skipping them with flair, thinking they were just a waste of time. Suddenly after my first job when spreadsheets became my daily bread and butter I started a metamorphosis. I became an Excel fanatic!

My current job has refined that interest and now I have replaced the love for spreadsheets with that of databases. I have mastered a few things in MS Access and now….yes..I’m ready to sail away from MS Access and visit other ports. What I’m actually talking about is that I’m going to learn SQL and I’m going to use this blog to document that process. I think it is going to be fun…and useful and possibly inspiring for other people.

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