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SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL is a practical instructional guide by database consultant John L. Viescas. Written for beginners and developing practitioners, it explains how to formulate SQL queries that retrieve, combine, summarize, and change relational data. Its central purpose is not merely to list SQL commands, but to teach the reasoning needed to translate a business question into a dependable query. The book proceeds from foundational selection and filtering tasks toward joins, set operations, complex conditions, grouped calculations, and window based analysis. It emphasizes broadly applicable SQL concepts rather than tying its lessons to one database product. Practice materials for systems including Access, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL reinforce that cross platform orientation. The 2018 fourth edition updates the long running guide with advanced material on calculations over groups and partitioned windows. Its genre is therefore a hands-on database textbook and reference, designed to make relational querying understandable without assuming extensive programming experience.