Mike,

I reviewed this book for Wrox Press, shortly before they went out of business.
It was not a favorable review; the authors are primarily MS SQL Server
engineers and cross-over some information which is not accurate. Also, many
of the technical examples in the book contain typos and mistakes. So I do
NOT recommend this book currently. Buy Kerry Douglas' book instead.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibli...4-0735712573-2
Somewhat outdated (versionn 7.2) but everything in it is accurate.

Ewald has such a book:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibli...4-0672323826-3

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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Hi Josh,

Thanks for your response.
I'm taking your advice.
I have sampled the Douglas book and liked what I saw, so I just ordered it.
I'm thinking I should see if I'm even able to learn how to build and
use a database, then if I'm successful with postgresql, I'll worry
about building a web interface for it.

Thanks again for the input and guidance.

Mike

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:00:52 -0700, Josh Berkus <josh (AT) agliodbs (DOT) com> wrote:
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Mike, I'm going to follow Josh's advice too. ;-) I didn't realize a PHP/PGSQL book existed... Not sure how I missed it.

Anyway, if you can install PGSQL on your WinXP box, setting up a database is a piece of cake. :-)

When you get around to installing the goodiers, shoot me an e-mail and I'll give you some tips I learned the *hard* way.

My latest problem is trying to get dbg (debugger) to work with maguma's php coder's IDE. ugggh!

I am getting close to actually being able to program in PHP, though :-)



Mike <1100100 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Hi Josh,

Thanks for your response.
I'm taking your advice.
I have sampled the Douglas book and liked what I saw, so I just ordered it.
I'm thinking I should see if I'm even able to learn how to build and
use a database, then if I'm successful with postgresql, I'll worry
about building a web interface for it.

Thanks again for the input and guidance.

Mike

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:00:52 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
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