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Introduction to SQL

In this four-part walkthrough I talk about SQL, starting with how I learned it and how valuable it is for data storage and then moving onto practical uses and proper abstraction.

  1. Web Development Why Keep Content in a DatabaseI like to think of myself as a practical web developer. With no true formal training, most of what I use to …
  2. Web Development How Tables and Rows WorkIn my last post, I introduced some of the basic ideas of data storage and how I came to realize that SQL would …
  3. Web Development Reading Data with SELECTWhile the last two posts focused heavily on theory and fundamentals of SQL it’s time to start on the …
  4. Web Development A Reusable Database Class in PHPFor the last post in this short series on SQL I wanted to explain some more in-depth usage. A technique that I …