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  • Published: Mar 10th, 2009
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All the Reference You Need…

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People borrow my database books and a bunch of them are in circulation at any given time. Also, a lot of database resources are online only (e.g. for Oracle and MySQL). Right now, this is the state of my database bookshelf:

l2db

l2db

Not bad! You can probably get through a lot with just these three…

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One Response to “All the Reference You Need…”


  1. Giorgio Sironi
    on Mar 10th, 2009
    @ 11:42 am: 

    Half of Mysql Pocket Reference is also online in Google Book Search (in case someone steal your copy :)

o hai!

Maggie Nelson is a software architect in New York City. She likes open source (especially PHP) but is willing to break her "free is good" philosophy for Oracle.

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