SQL Books

There are lots of different books that cover many different SQL variants.

  • The Essence of Databases by F.D. Rolland (Prentice Hall, 1998)

  • Learning SQL, 3rd Edition, by Alan Beaulieu (O’Reilly, 2020), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • SQL Cookbook, 2nd Edition, by Anthony Molinaro and Robert de Graaf (O’Reilly, 2021), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Using SQLite by Jay A. Kreibich (O’Reilly, 2010)

  • SQL Hacks by Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell (O’Reilly, 2007) O’Reilly or Amazon

  • SQL in a Nutshell, 4th Edition, by Kevin Kline, Regina O. Obe, and Leo S. Hsu (O’Reilly, 2022), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition, by Sveta Smirnova and Alkin Tezuysal (O’Reilly, 2022), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Essence of Databases, by F. D. Rolland (Prentice Hall, 1998), available at Amazon

  • High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition, by Silvia Botros and Jeremy Tinley (O’Reilly, 2022), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition, by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, and Vadim Tkachenko (O’Reilly, 2012)

  • SQL For Dummies (Mark has the 3rd Edition, by Allen G. Taylor, IDG Books, 1998), available at Amazon

  • Learning MySQL, 2nd Edition, by Vinicius M. Grippa and Sergey Kuzmichev (O’Reilly, 2021), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • MySQL Troubleshooting by Sveta Smirnova (O’Reilly, 2012), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • SQL Tuning by Dan Tow (O’Reilly, 2004), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, by Russell J. T. Dyer (O’Reilly, 2008), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Getting Started with SQL by Thomas Nield (O’Reilly, 2016), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • MySQL Stored Procedure Programming by Guy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein (O’Reilly, 2006), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Learning MySQL and MariaDB by Russell J.T. Dyer (O’Reilly, 2015), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Learning Oracle PL/SQL by Bill Pribyl and Steven Feuerstein (O’Reilly, 2002), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Edition, by Steven Feuerstein (O’Reilly, 2008), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Optimizing Oracle Performance by Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt (O’Reilly, 2003), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Efficient MySQL Performance by Daniel Nichter (O’Reilly, 2022), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • SQL for Data Analysis by Cathy Tanimura (O’Reilly, 2021), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition, by Sanjay Mishra and Alan Beaulieu (O’Reilly, 2004), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, by Jonathan Gennick (O’Reilly, 2005), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th Edition, by Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl (O’Reilly, 2014), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Oracle Essentials, 5th Edition, by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, and Jonathan Stern (O’Reilly, 2013), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Essential SQLAlchemy, 2nd Edition, by Jason Myers and Rick Copeland (O’Reilly, 2016), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs by Arup Nanda and Steven Feuerstein (O’Reilly, 2006), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • The New Relational Database Dictionary by C. J. Date (O’Reilly, 2016)