I finished reading SQL for Web Nerds, well I read it kind of fast! Imagine my surprise seeing in the afterword “Congratulations: You've learned SQL. You can tap into the power of the relational database management system for concurrency control and transaction management.” Wow. Never thought that could happen. Well it didn’t really, but I understood enough that I could go back and read it a little more thoroughly and then maybe I would be entitled to the author’s congratulations. Unfortunately I am still a little more interested in his dog pictures and found a link to the photographer’s site where she talks about photographing dogs. This is where I’m going to look around a little more. I don’t think Dr. Tomer expects us to become programmers but I do think we are expected to have some understanding of what is behind the tools we are using in our profession.
The author, Philip Greenspun, also suggests looking into “Web services for collaboration” and provides a link to his writings on this subject http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/. I will read this too when I have some free time. I like the way he writes and presents his information.
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