Advice on SQL Books

[mel_flynn]

I need advice on what SQL book to buy. I use SQL in VB and report writting. I think I need a book that briefly covers the basics and builds up to complex SQL. I have a list below, any advice would be really appreaciated.

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· Beginning Databases with MySQL (Matthew & Stones) - Publisher: WROX Press
· Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers (Willis) - Publisher: WROX Press
· Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Technical Reference (Seidman) Hardcover - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Delaney) Hardcover + CD-ROM - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Managing & Using MySQL 2nd Edition (Reese Yarger & King) Covers Version 4.0.1 - Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
· Mastering MySQL 4 (Gilfillan) - Publisher: Sybex , Inc
· Mastering SQL Server 2000 (Gunderloy & Jorden) - Publisher: Sybex , Inc
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Companion Garcia et al) Hardcover + CD-ROM - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Stanek) – Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Bible (Nielsen) + CD-ROM - Publisher: Hungry Minds
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DBA Survival Guide 2nd Edition (Spenik & Sledge) -Publisher: Sams
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability Volume 2 Deployment Patterns & practices - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide Practices & Patterns (Microsoft Corp) - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference (Whalen et al) Hardcover - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (Microsoft Corp) + 2 CD-ROMs/SQL Server 2000 120-day Trial - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (Rankins et al) + CD-ROM - Publisher: Sams
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed 2nd Edition (Rankins Bertucci & Jensen) + CD-ROM - Publisher: Sams
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Dummies (Mann) + CD-ROM/SQL Server 2000 Enterprise 120-Day Trial - Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.
· MySQL & mSQL (Yarger Reese & King) - Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
· MySQL (DuBois) - Publisher: New Riders
· MySQL Bible (Suehring) + CD-ROM - Publisher: Hungry Minds
· MySQL Cookbook Covers MySQL 4.0 (DuBois) - Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
· MySQL Reference Manual Documentation from the Source (Widenius & Axmark) - Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
· MySQL/PHP Database Applications (Greenspan & Bulger) + CD-ROM – Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.
· Practical PostgreSQL (Worsley & Drake) + CD-ROM – Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
· Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming (Vieira) - Publisher: WROX Press
· Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Dobson) + CD-ROM - Publisher: Microsoft Press
· Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML 2nd Edition (Malcolm) -Publisher: Microsoft Press
· SQL In a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference (Kline) – Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
· SQL Server 2000 Database Develoment from Scratch (Hawthorne) + CD-ROM/SQL Server 2000 120 Day Evaluation - Publisher: Que Corporation
· SQL Server 2000 High Availability Volume 1 Planning Patterns & Practices -Publisher: Microsoft Press
· SQL Server 2000 The Complete Reference (Shapiro) – Publisher: Osborne McGraw-Hill
· SQL Server 2000 Web Application Developer's Guide (Utley) – Publisher: Osborne McGraw-Hill
· SQL The Complete Reference 2nd Edition (Groff & Weinberg) + CD-ROM/SQL Server 2000/DB2 Trials & MySQL - Publisher: Osborne McGraw-Hill
· SQL for Dummies 4th Edition (Taylor) - Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.
· Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days 3rd Edition (Stephens et al) - Publisher: Sams
· Sams Teach yourself MySQL in 21 Days 2nd Edition Covers MySQL 4.0 (Butcher) - Publisher: Sams
· Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours 3rd Edition (Stephens & Plew) - Publisher: Sams
· Transact-SQL Cookbook (Spetic & Gennick) - Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc

[mel_flynn]

Someone????