Good books about huge databases ? [OT]

I saw a reference to "The Art of SQL" this morning when looking up Kevin
Kline's "SQL in a Nutshell" on Amazon (it appears that 63% of Amazon
users who read the nutshell page buy the Art of SQL book, although I
hadn't heard of it before today). What do you think so far? Good book?
*mike hodgson*
http://sqlnerd.blogspot.com
Tracy McKibben wrote:

> Jarod wrote:
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> I'm currently reading "The Art Of SQL"
> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008945). Pretty good
> explanations of database and query concepts.Mike Hodgson wrote:
> I saw a reference to "The Art of SQL" this morning when looking up Kevin
> Kline's "SQL in a Nutshell" on Amazon (it appears that 63% of Amazon
> users who read the nutshell page buy the Art of SQL book, although I
> hadn't heard of it before today). What do you think so far? Good book?
> --
> *mike hodgson*
> http://sqlnerd.blogspot.com
>
It's pretty good so far. Lots of theory, nothing specific to one RDBMS
over another. I would HIGHLY recommend it to a developer or beginning
DBA who doesn't have a lot of database experience. I'm only about a
third of the way through, can't say that I've actually learned anything
knew from it yet, but it's been a good refresher/memory jogger. Overall
an enjoyable read.