greetings,

I would recommend looking at:

WebReview.com: Database Developer

I especially enjoyed the article titled "From Chaos to Order: Designing Databases". I've been working with databases for quite a few years now, but found this article to be very clear.

Also, I like Philip Greenspun, and if you can get past the ego, I think there's good stuff there. One I might recommend is:

"SQL for Web Nerds"

I would also say get yourself a database to connect to, be it MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, whatever; and, start making databases!

I think actually building stuff is the quickest way to learn. A lot of the information collected in the many books on database design is very practical and when you start to build databases, even simple projects like the ubiquitous CD collection, all the issues of normalization, data types, how to do queries, etc. It all comes up. Being that Database books are usually so damn expensive, I would heartily recommend mucking about with a free database first and go for the book purchase when you just can't stand it anymore.

There are so many books on database design, I couldn't possible make a useful recommendation. I have the C.J. Date book, which another person recommended, but it's kind of crufty.

So, get yourself a database you can start plunking with, and it's either fun, and you keep doing it for years (like me), or you don't and you go eat some cookies (which is ok too).

cheers

In reply to Re: Leaning databases in Perl by antjock
in thread Leaning databases in Perl by r.joseph

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