|  Whitehorn, Mark and Bill Marklyn. Inside Relational Databases, Third Edition . Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, 2001 (ISBN 1852334010). An easy-to-read book about relational databases. Low theory, but enough to be useful. Kroenke, David M. Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design and Implementation, Ninth Edition . Indianapolis, IN: Prentice Hall, 2003 (ISBN 0131015141). A college text that covers the primary topics well.  http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/ ”A helpful tutorial on relational databases. http://www.atlasindia.com/sql.htm ”Another tutorial on database concepts; this one focuses on SQL using MySQL. http://www.palslib.com/Fundamentals/The_Relational_Model.html ”An excellent list of resources about relational databases. http://www.w3schools.com/sql/ ”A tutorial on SQL basics that covers the basic aspects of ANSI-SQL, which means it is vendor neutral. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/productdoc/2000/books.asp ”Download the SQL Server books online, my favorite SQL syntax reference. Even if you hate Microsoft, this tool is helpful. http://www.sqlcourse.com/ ”A fun introductory SQL tutorial that provides easy-to-understand SQL instructions. http://www. devguru .com ”A wonderful syntax resource for many languages, including SQL. Click the T-SQL Syntax item in the menu on the left to see the syntax structure and a brief definition of each code element in Transact-SQL's four most important statements. | 