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Learning to Optimize SQL Queries and Understand Execution Plans - Resources?

I find myself writing more and more SQL queries at work (mostly Oracle 11g, but some SQL Server 2005-2008) and have started creating some pretty complex views for the rest of the analyst team. They ...
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Getting to know SQL via the “short questions/simple answers style of learning”

Looking for a incremental SQL course that would likely be similar to the this Ruby Koan course; which is in fact inspired by the book, "The Little Lisper", which uses a short questions/simple answers ...
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Which SQL standard is most broadly and completely supported?

I want to concentrate on one of the SQL language specs for learning and reference purposes. Which version of the SQL standard is most broadly supported across DBMS'es so that I can focus my time and ...