From: jonathan michaels Date: March 19 1999 1:53am Subject: beginners resource and an introduction -- a bit long, sorry List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/551 Message-Id: <19990319125348.B17432@caamora.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii all, a question if i may, would somebody recomend, a book or books for begining sql (mysql in particular) database building and using .. sort of like a primer and or a care and feeding guide, sort of things, please. also a bit over due but i suppose i need to say this as well. i've been reading and browsing a litle while now, the list seems to be quite a knowledgable place to be, congratualtions to all who have made it like this, all teh best for teh future. i hope to be able to contribute to this in same small way, i hope. i suppose i'd better introduce myself, apart from say that my name is jonathan michaels and that i am an invalid pensioner currently residing in sydney australia thier isn't all that much to say. other than in a previous life i was a systems analyst and tinkered a lot with databases and information retrieval systems and data mangling in general. i;m using an asortment od intel based hardware, some new some old, very old, all running various incarnations of freebsd and (very) shortly, i hope a new beos v4 and or v4.1 my life can be described thusly ... then, one morning some 8 years ago i woke up and hand no recolection of a previous life or how i had gotten to where i was .. it was a really freightn expericence, but i knew it was all thier somewhere, but where. you will notice some er funny spellings, i suffer with dsylexia, i also have some neurological difficulties that make reading writng (and typing) very hard. most spelling checkers make a dsylexed text far worse that it starts out, so i no longeruse a spelling checker. because, if i cant read what i've written, thier is no point .. if you can understand that one. one other thing, i suffer with chronic, intractible sever pain caused my sever arthritis .. sometimes my responces may seem to be "short" and or "punchy", this is because of my pain levels and not as a method of provocation or getting snotty over an email .. i m reasobably well tmpered .. living with sever, untreatble pain fro over 40 years does that to/for a person. well that all thier is to this jonathan michaels, a singularly unremarkable person ... well ok, i've survived, grin. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================