100 Best Databases Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

5.0

Many forces affect software today: larger datasets, geographical disparities, complex company structures, and the growing need to be fast and nimble in the face of change.

Proven approaches such as service-oriented and event-driven architectures are joined by newer techniques such as microservices, reactive architectures, DevOps, and stream processing. Many of these patterns are successful by thems

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The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

4.9

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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary r

Recommended by Andrew Chen, Marissa Mayer, Nir Eyal, and 23 others.

Grey Baker

I mainly read to decompress and change my state of mind, so it’s hard to point to an insight I read that helped me. Reading fiction has pulled me out of a bad mood more times than I can count, though, and always reenergises me to attack problems that had stumped me again. That said, I read and loved Norman Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”, and it’s helped me think through design problems ever since. [source]

Julia Enthoven

For people interested in designing or building software products: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman and The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen. Both books have informed my product sense and helped me make decisions about great UX. [source]

Kaci Lambe

These three books are about how people actually use design in their lives. They helped me understand this very basic idea: There are no dumb users, only bad designers. Take the time to create based on how your design will be interacted with. Test it. Iterate. That's how you become a good designer. [source]

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez

4.9

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Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built fo

Recommended by Adam Wagner, Asher Wolf, Caitlin Moran, and 9 others.

Adam Wagner

@CCriadoPerez @MumsnetTowers I love this - the book, Poppy, the mug - it's so well composed! [source]

Asher Wolf

Tell me your best thing today. Mine was an amazing book and greeting card arrived in the post from the wonderful @MmeEmmeline https://t.co/GpEs2lg037 [source]

Caitlin Moran

@CCriadoPerez mate, I bow in admiration. it's an AMAZING, game-changing book. [source]

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

4.7

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Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social fabric

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not

Recommended by Paula Boddington and Ramesh Srinivasan.

Paula Boddington

How the use of algorithms has affected people’s lives and occasionally ruined them. [source]

Ramesh Srinivasan

This book is a really fantastic analysis of how quantification, the collection of data, the modelling around data, the predictions made by using data, the algorithmic and quantifiable ways of predicting behaviour based on data, are all built by elites for elites and end up, quite frankly, screwing over everybody else. [source]

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.7

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

In this 3rd edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic-–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usabil

Recommended by Brian Armstrong, Jeff Atwood, Ken Norton, and 13 others.

Anoop Anthony

Krug was teaching usability two decades ago when UX wasn't a buzzword, and the WWW was still in its nascent stages. (The first edition of this book was published in 2000!) I cut my teeth on Don't make me think back when I first started out in the industry. It is now in its third edition and still relevant — it offers compelling insights into building great user experiences into websites and applications. [source]

Auston Bunsen

I’m actually a self-taught programmer, so these books have really helped me with practical skills that I could put to use & yield results. The return on investment for these kinds of books is off the charts for me! [source]

Chris Goward

Here are some of the books that have been very impactful for me, or taught me a new way of thinking: … Don't Make Me Think. [source]

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Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work

Alex Petrov

4.6

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it’s often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.

Throughout the book, yo

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Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design

Michael J. Hernandez

4.6

Learn database design the easy, common-sense way! For years, Michael J. Hernandez's best selling Database Design for Mere Mortals® has earned worldwide respect as the clearest, most straightforward, software-independent tutorial on the basic principles of relational database design. Now, he's thoroughly updated this hands-on best-seller, making it even easier to understand and use, while thoroughl

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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

4.5

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Foreword by Steven Pinker

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.

By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human bei

Recommended by Jj. Omojuwa and Ron Fournier.

Jj. Omojuwa

@SympLySimi Lol. Read this book. You’d love it. https://t.co/d2cLOyoiZ9 [source]

Ron Fournier

Just finished, “Everybody Lies” by @SethS_D, which in addition to being a tremendous education on Big Data, includes the best conclusion to a non-fiction book I’ve ever read. Read it. -30- [source]

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

4.5

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries.

Using everyday objects and fam

Recommended by Ana Bell.

Ana Bell

It gets you to use your imagination to virtually build a computer. It’s easy to read, you can lie down on the couch and enjoy it—it’s not so much of a textbook. It demystifies the magic of a computer and what it is. [source]

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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Steven D. Levitt

4.5

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.

Four years in the making, SuperFre

Recommended by Bill Gates, Malcolm Gladwell, Daymond John, and 2 others.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

I recommend this book to anyone who reads nonfiction. It is very well written and full of great insights. [source]

Fabrice Grinda

I have lots of books to recommend, but they are not related to my career path. The only one that is remotely related is Peter Thiel’s Zero to One. That said here are books I would recommend. [source]

Keith Slotter

These two gentlemen wrote the first book several years ago and SuperFreakonomics just came out. The books are very interesting on crime theory. Their theories are controversial. For example, they link a decrease in crime to the legalisation of abortion. In a nutshell they say that abortion stopped a whole new generation of criminals from being born. And that is because they say abortion is most prominent among the lowest class people. That is, of course, not a politically correct statement to make, but when you go through their numbers and what they have done, sadly there rings a strong sound of truth in their argument. So, I would encourage anyone with an open mind to read these books and give it some thought. Read 4 The Cell by John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell Read [source]

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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Tiago Forte

4.5

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling

Ralph Kimball

4.4

Updated new edition of Ralph Kimball's groundbreaking book on dimensional modeling for data warehousing!

The first edition of Ralph Kimball's "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" introduced the foundation on which the data warehousing industry has been built - and now, these books are considered the most authoritative guides on dimensional modeling. This new third edition is a complete library of dimension

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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

4.4

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to hea

Recommended by Arianna Huffington, Satya Nadella, Yuval Noah Harari, and 13 others.

Arianna Huffington

Founder/The Huffington Post

Kai-Fu Lee's experience as an AI pioneer, top investor, and cancer survivor has led to this brilliant book about global technology. AI Superpowers gives us a guide to a future that celebrates all the benefits that AI will bring, while cultivating what is unique about our humanity. It’s one of those books you read and think, ‘Why are people reading any other book right now when this is so clearly the one they need to be reading? [source]

Satya Nadella

CEO/Microsoft

Kai-Fu Lee's smart analysis on human-AI coexistence is clear-eyed and a must-read. We must look deep within ourselves for the values and wisdom to guide AI's development. [source]

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian

A superb and very timely survey of the impact of AI on the geopolitical system, the job market and human society. [source]

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Access 2019 Bible

Michael Alexander

4.3

Master database creation and managementAccess 2019 Bible is your, comprehensive reference to the world's most popular database management tool. With clear guidance toward everything from the basics to the advanced, this go-to reference helps you take advantage of everything Access 2019 has to offer. Whether you're new to Access or getting started with Access 2019, you'll find everything you need t

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NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence

Pramod J. Sadalage

4.3

The need to handle increasingly larger data volumes is one factor driving the adoption of a new class of nonrelational "NoSQL" databases. Advocates of NoSQL databases claim they can be used to build systems that are more performant, scale better, and are easier to program." ""NoSQL Distilled" is a concise but thorough introduction to this rapidly emerging technology. Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

Aurélien Géron

4.3

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Data Science with R

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund

4.3

Recommended by Tim @Realscientists.

Tim @Realscientists

If you are interested in learning programming, there are lots of great tutorials. For data analysis, R and the R 4 data science book is a great way to go https://t.co/zezYpG0TRL, and for general R syntax, there is the swirl learning package https://t.co/Tzfpnlgo3O /20 [source]

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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

David Spiegelhalter

4.2

The definitive guide to statistical thinking
Statistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact from the fiction, the ostentatious embellishments from the raw evidence -- and even more so if we hope to pa

Recommended by Dan Davies.

Dan Davies

@amoralelite @d_spiegel It's a great book. I thought it was like coming home because I've always tried to avoid calculation due to the dyspraxia and it was just "yes, that's how you think about it" [source]

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High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication & Load Balancing

Baron Schwartz

4.2

As users come to depend on MySQL, they find that they have to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, and performance--issues that are not well documented but are critical to a smoothly functioning site. This book is an insider's guide to these little understood topics.Author Jeremy Zawodny has managed large numbers of MySQL servers for mission-critical work at Yahoo!, maintained years of co

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SQL Antipatterns

Bill Karwin

4.2

Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. Now he's sharing his collection of antipatterns--the most common errors he's identified in those thousands of requests for help.

Most developers aren't SQL experts, and most of the SQL that gets used is inefficient, hard to maintain, and sometimes just plain wrong. This book shows you all the commo

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Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering

Jessica Talisman

4.2

Build semantic knowledge systems with trusted and AI-ready taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs.Ontology Pipeline gives data leaders, semantic engineers, ontologists, taxonomists, knowledge managers, librarians, AI architects, and enterprise data teams a practical framework for turning messy organizational language into structured, machine-readable knowledge. Instead of treating ontology d

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OCA Oracle Database SQL Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-071) (Oracle Press)

Steve O'Hearn

4.2

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Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

Ron Kohavi

4.2

Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls, an

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SQL Cookbook

Anthony Molinaro

4.2

You know the rudiments of the SQL query language, yet you feel you aren't taking full advantage of SQL's expressive power. You'd like to learn how to do more work with SQL inside the database before pushing data across the network to your applications. You'd like to take your SQL skills to the next level.

Let's face it, SQL is a deceptively simple language to learn, and many database developers nev

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Database Systems: The Complete Book

Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom

4.2

For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database use, and implementation of database applications and database management systems. The first half of

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Readings in Database Systems

Michael Stonebraker, Joseph Hellerstein

4.2

From the Preface: "Much has happened in database research and development since the first edition of this book in 1988 (the "Red Book"). Many of the professionals and students who used it have asked for a revised collection reflecting the current state of the field... After carefully reevaluating the available research literature and incorporating many helpful comments from readers and instructors

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Joe Reis

4.2

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle.Author

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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

Andriy Burkov

4.2

WARNING! To avoid buying counterfeit on Amazon, click on "See All Buying Options" and choose "Amazon.com" and not a third-party seller.

Concise and to the point — the book can be read during a week. During that week, you will learn almost everything modern machine learning has to offer. The author and other practitioners have spent years learning these concepts.

Companion wiki — the book has a conti

Recommended by Kirk Borne.

Kirk Borne

Recent top-selling books in #AI & #MachineLearning: https://t.co/Ij9I7SzR4d ————— #BigData #DataScience #DataMining #Algorithms #PredictiveAnalytics #Python ————— ...in the TOP 10: 1)The Hundred-Page ML Book: https://t.co/dQ7nP6gwP0 2)Hands-on ML with...: https://t.co/Y0Iz3GbtGP https://t.co/72rAFN1FwW [source]

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Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)

Sebastian Raschka

4.2

Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning."An exceptional deep dive into the next frontier of AI.”—Aman Chadha, GoogleThis book is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build rel

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An Introduction to Database Systems

C.J. Date

4.1

Continuing in the eighth edition, An Introduction to Database Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to the now very large field of database systems by providing a solid grounding in the foundations of database technology while shedding some light on how the field is likely to develop in the future. This new edition has been rewritten and expanded to stay current with database system trends

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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics

Jennifer Robbins

4.1

Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various t

Recommended by Jakob Nielsen.

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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman

4.1

During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Ma

Recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Author

Very comprehensive, sufficiently technical to get most of the plumbing behind machine learning. Very useful as a reference book (actually, there is no other complete reference book). The authors are the real thing (Tibshirani is the one behind the LASSO regularization technique). Uses some mathematical statistics without the burdens of measure theory and avoids the obvious but complicated proofs. I own two copies of this edition, one for the office, one for my house, and the authors generously provide the PDF for travelers like me. [source]

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SQL Performance Explained

Markus Winand

4.1

SQL Performance Explained helps developers to improve database performance. The focus is on SQL-it covers all major SQL databases without getting lost in the details of any one specific product. Starting with the basics of indexing and the WHERE clause, SQL Performance Explained guides developers through all parts of an SQL statement and explains the pitfalls of object-relational mapping (ORM) too

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High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication

Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, et al.

4.1

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Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation

Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst

4.1

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R for Data Science

Hadley Wickham

4.1

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The Excel Complete Course: From the Very Basics to Advanced Features, Formulas, Functions, Macros, Charts, and PivotTables, with over 1000 images and step-by-step instructions

Jenny Douras

4.1

Master Excel faster, work smarter, and build skills that last.If you’ve ever felt intimidated by formulas, spreadsheets, or the many features packed into Excel, this book was made for you. The Excel Complete Course 2026 breaks everything down into clear, visual, step-by-step lessons that help you build practical Excel skills quickly and confidently.Whether you’re learning for work, school, busines

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SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself

Ben Forta

4.1

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results.
By working through the book's 22 lessons of 10 minutes or less, you'll learn what you need to know to take advantage of the SQL language.
Lessons cover IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Express, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle and Oracle express, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Full-color code e

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James Holler

4.1

⭐ This bundle includes 4 COMPLETELY FREE EBOOKS! Find out how to download them inside the book ⭐NOW! Stop wasting time and money trying to figure out everything yourself and master all the functions of the Office Suite!If you are a fan of PC and use it for work, entertainment, or anything else, mastering main Microsoft Programs is a MUST. I can’t tell you enough how many people I see not just stru

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The Definitive Guide to DAX: Business intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel (Business Skills)

Marco Russo

4.1

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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes

Ben Forta

4.1

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition"New full-color code examples help you see how SQL statements are structured"
Whether you're an application developer, database administrator, web application designer, mobile app developer, or Microsoft Office users, a good working knowledge of SQL is an important part of interacting with databases. And Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes off

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Learning Spark

Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, et al.

4.1

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Data Analytics for Absolute Beginners: A Deconstructed Guide to Data Literacy: (Introduction to Data, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence & Machine Learning)

Oliver Theobald

4.1

While exposure to data has become more or less a daily ritual for the rank-and-file knowledge worker, true understanding-treated in this book as data literacy-resides in knowing what lies behind the data. Everything from the data's source to the specific choice of input variables, algorithmic transformations, and visual representation shape the accuracy, relevance, and value of the data and mark i

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The Definitive Guide to Dax: Business Intelligence for Microsoft Power Bi, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel

Marco Russo

4.1

Now expanded and updated with modern best practices, this is the most complete guide to Microsoft's DAX language for business intelligence, data modeling, and analytics. Expert Microsoft BI consultants Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari help you master everything from table functions through advanced code and model optimization. You'll learn exactly what happens under the hood when you run a DAX expr

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Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

Sebastian Raschka

4.1

4.1

Pro SQL Server Internals explains how different SQL Server components work "under the hood" and how they communicate with each other. This is the practical book with a large number of examples that will show you how various design and implementation decisions affect the behavior and performance of your systems.

Pro SQL Server Internals covers a multiple SQL Server versions starting with SQL Server

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SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL

John L. Viescas

4.1

The #1 Easy, Common-Sense Guide to SQL Queries--Updated with More Advanced Techniques and Solutions

Foreword by Keith W. Hare, Vice Chair, USA SQL Standards Committee

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective queries with the latest SQL standards and database applications. Now, author John L. Viescas has updated this hands-on cla

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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (4th Edition)

Ben Forta

4.1

This updated and expanded second edition of the Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (4th Edition) provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex

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Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence

Charity Majors, Austin Parker, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda

4.1

Observability is the only way to engineer, manage, and improve the business-critical systems that customers depend on every day—and as the complexity of software grows, so does the need for observability. With this thoroughly revised second edition, authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda take inventory of the current state of the field and explain how practitioners can evolve t

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Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Technologies: Bitcoin: Invest In Digital Gold, Wallet Technology Book, Anonymous Altcoins (3 BOOKS IN 1)

Szabolcs Juhasz

4.1

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Practical SQL, 2nd Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

Anthony DeBarros

4.1

Analyze data like a pro, even if you’re a beginner.Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. Anthony DeBarros, a journalist and data analyst, focuses on using SQL to find the story within your data. The examples and code use the open-source databas

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Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

Nathan Marz, James Warren

4.1

Services like social networks, web analytics, and intelligent e-commerce often need to manage data at a scale too big for a traditional database. As scale and demand increase, so does Complexity. Fortunately, scalability and simplicity are not mutually exclusive—rather than using some trendy technology, a different approach is needed. Big data systems use many machines working in parallel to store

Recommended by Vicki Boykis.

Vicki Boykis

This book remains a great read if you want to understand how modern data architecture works, and especially distributed data systems. [source]

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Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, Numpy, and Ipython

Wes McKinney

4.1

Looking for complete instructions on manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching structured data in Python? The second edition of this hands-on guide--updated for Python 3.5 and Pandas 1.0--is packed with practical cases studies that show you how to effectively solve a broad set of data analysis problems, using Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and IPython.

Written by Wes Mc

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MongoDB in Action

Kyle Banker

4.1

Summary

MongoDB in Action is a comprehensive guide to MongoDB for application developers. The book begins by explaining what makes MongoDB unique and describing its ideal use cases. A series of tutorials designed for MongoDB mastery then leads into detailed examples for leveraging MongoDB in e-commerce, social networking, analytics, and other common applications.

About the TechnologyBig data can mea

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Learning SQL

Alan Beaulieu

4.1

Updated for the latest database management systems -- including MySQL 6.0, Oracle 11g, and Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 -- this introductory guide will get you up and running with SQL quickly. Whether you need to write database applications, perform administrative tasks, or generate reports, Learning SQL, Second Edition, will help you easily master all the SQL fundamentals.

Each chapter presents a

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Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

Sam Newman

4.1

How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman’s extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.

With many illustrative examples, insightful migration patterns, and a

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Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

Anthony DeBarros

4.1

Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as its primary tools.

You'll first cover the fundamentals of databa

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Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management

Carlos Coronel

4.1

Database skills are among the most in-demand IT skills today. Now you can gain a solid foundation in database design and implementation with the practical, easy-to-understand approach in the market-leading DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MANAGEMENT, 13E. Diagrams, illustrations, and tables clarify in-depth coverage of database design. You learn the key to successful database implemen

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PostgreSQL: Up and Running

Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hs

4.1

If you’re thinking about migrating to the PostgreSQL open source database system, this guide provides a concise overview to help you quickly understand and use PostgreSQL’s unique features. Not only will you learn about the enterprise class features in the 9.2 release, you’ll also discover that PostgeSQL is more than just a database system—it’s also an impressive application platform.

With numerous

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The Manga Guide to Databases (Manga Guide To...)

Ltd. Tren-Pro Co.

4.1

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.

Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many c

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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Kristina Chodorow, Michael Dirolf

4.0

How does MongoDB help you manage a huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application? With this authoritative introduction, you'll learn the many advantages of using document-oriented databases, and discover why MongoDB is a reliable, high-performance system that allows for almost infinite horizontal scalability.

Written by engineers from 10gen, the company that develops and supports

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Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product

Emmanuel Ameisen

4.0

Learn the skills necessary to design, build, and deploy applications powered by machine learning. Through the course of this hands-on book, you'll build an example ML-driven application from initial idea to deployed product. Data scientists, software engineers, and product managers with little or no ML experience will learn the tools, best practices, and challenges involved in building a real-worl

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Python All-in-One For Dummies

John C. Shovic

4.0

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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook: Over 175 recipes for database administrators to manage enterprise databases

4.0

Optimize Microsoft SQL Server 2014 queries and applications Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query Tuning & Optimization is filled with ready-to-use techniques for creating high-performance queries and applications. The book describes the inner workings of the query processor so you can write better queries and provide the query processor with the quality information it needs to produce efficient executi

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Mastering Regular Expressions

Jeffrey E. F. Friedl

4.0

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.

If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you alr

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Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with pandas, NumPy, and Jupyter

Wes McKinney

4.0

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Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems

Philip Bernstein

4.0

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Becoming a Data Head: How to Think, Speak and Understand Data Science, Statistics and Machine Learning

Alex J. Gutman

4.0

Turn yourself into a Data Head. You'll become a more valuable employee and make your organization more successful. Thomas H. Davenport, Research Fellow, Author of Competing on Analytics, Big Data @ Work, and The AI AdvantageYou've heard the hype around data?now get the facts.In Becoming a Data Head: How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning, award-winning d

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System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

Alex Xu

4.0

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Deep Learning Illustrated: A Visual, Interactive Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Jon Krohn, Grant Beyleveld, et al.

4.0

"The authors' clear visual style provides a comprehensive look at what's currently possible with artificial neural networks as well as a glimpse of the magic that's to come."
--Tim Urban, author of Wait But Why Fully Practical, Insightful Guide to Modern Deep Learning

Deep learning is transforming software, facilitating powerful new artificial intelligence capabilities, and driving unprecedented alg

Recommended by Kirk Borne.

Kirk Borne

🌟📘📊📈Awesome new book >> #DeepLearning Illustrated — A Visual, Interactive Guide to Artificial Intelligence” https://t.co/xIW48MskrR by @JonKrohnLearns ——————— #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #Algorithms #NeuralNetworks https://t.co/JKSrVRLpS0 [source]

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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

George Gilder

4.0

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade."

“Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder sh

Recommended by Dominic Steil.

Dominic Steil

One of the five books recommends to young people interested in his career path. [source]

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A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

4.0

Recommended by Steve Jurvetson and Dan Sullivan.

Steve Jurvetson

A series of epiphanies from the author and others that the world is really interesting when you look at iterative algorithms applied millions and billions of times. [source]

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Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Fans Use Mathematics in Sports, Second Edition

Wayne L. Winston, Scott Nestler, and Konstantinos Pelechrinis

4.0

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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python

Joel Grus

4.0

To really learn data science, you should not only master the tools--data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits--but also understand the ideas and principles underlying them. Updated for Python 3.6, this second edition of Data Science from Scratch shows you how these tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch.

If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programmi

Recommended by Balaji S. Srinivasan and Thorsten Heller.

Thorsten Heller

The Best #book to Start your #DataScience Journey - Towards #DataScience https://t.co/D8PlkkSxw6 by @benthecoder1 [source]

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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, CSS & HTML5)

Robin Nixon

4.0

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. In this update to this popular hands-on guide, you’ll tackle dynamic web programming with the latest versions of today’s core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, and key jQuery libraries.

Web designers will learn how to use the

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Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide: A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine

Clinton Gormley, Zachary Tong

4.0

Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data--or both--the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore data with Elasticsearch, but also helps you deal with the complexities of human language, geolocation, and relationships.

If you're a newcomer to both se

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Database System Concepts

Abraham Silberschatz, Henry Korth, S. Sudarshan

4.0

Intended for a first course in databases at the junior or senior undergraduate, or first-year graduate, level, this book covers concepts and algorithms based on those used in commercial or experimental database systems. It aims to present these concepts and algorithms in a general setting that is not tied to one particular database system.

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How to Win the Premier League: The Sunday Times Bestselling Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution

Ian Graham

4.0

Here for the first time, Graham reveals the fascinating data that informed some of the club’s most pivotal moments of the past decade, from the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager in 2015 to the signing of Mohamed Salah in 2017. Along the way, he shares groundbreaking insight into the modern game, including how a season largely played behind closed doors transformed our understanding of a home-

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Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms and All That Jazz

C. J. Date

4.0

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Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Chris Dixon

4.0

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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

Stephen Witt

4.0

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The Best Boring Book Ever of Select Healthcare Classification Systems and Databases

Katherine S. Rowell and Ann Cutrell

4.0

As you have probably already guessed by the title, this book is not a page-turner; there are no life-changing secrets buried here. Rather, it is meant to serve as a resource for both seasoned professionals in and newcomers to the healthcare industry, a resource that provides concise but thorough descriptions of select clinical classification systems and select healthcare databases. We have followe

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Ace the Data Science Interview: 201 Real Interview Questions Asked By FAANG, Tech Startups, & Wall Street

Nick Singh and Kevin Huo

4.0