The most-mentioned books on r/SQL

May 22, 2024

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit.

Table of Contents

The most-mentioned books on r/SQL
Our methodology
Who are we

The most-mentioned books on r/SQL

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals	16 users
T-SQL Fundamentals	15 users
SQL Cookbook	12 users
The Data Warehouse Toolkit	10 users
Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data With Transact-SQL	10 users
SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself	9 users
Training Kit	9 users
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties	8 users
Database Design for Mere Mortals	7 users
SQL Antipatterns	6 users
Learning SQL	5 users
T-SQL Querying	5 users
SQL and Relational Theory	5 users
SQL Practice Problems	5 users
The Manga Guide to Databases	5 users
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals	4 users
The Art of SQL	4 users
Head First SQL	4 users
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours	4 users
SQL For Dummies	4 users
Oracle PL/SQL Programming	4 users
Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets	3 users
Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties	3 users
SQL In 10 Minutes A Day, Pearson Teach Yourself	3 users
SQL All-in-One For Dummies	3 users
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying	3 users
Training Kit	3 users
Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel	3 users
SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning	3 users
Practical SQL	3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Reilly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

Who are we

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