I want to improve my SQL knowledge. I red so many SQL books and would like to read more about SQL for my occupation as mysql database manager.

What would you recommend?

Thanks, Werutz

What I'm really moaning about is that existing WAFs are very much oriented towards producing pages; under Swing (or, indeed, many other such toolkits) you'd be hard pressed not to do things in a component-like way.

I want to make it so easy to throw together your own components that it's the logical thing to do. The system shouldn't provide controllers and views; just views that can use components, and an easy to use framework for creating components, so the natural way of making a special form page is to throw together a component for it, which is then instantly malleable and reusable. Or, at least, that turning a page (or part thereof) into a component is just a matter of extracing the desired bit of template, shoving it into a 'compound component definition' file along with a bit of metadata, and then referring to it by name wherever required.

The second is partials, little bits of templates you can include in more than one view in more than one controller.

With the partials route, there's no explicit support for the business logic, but an acceptable pattern is to put the logic in ApplicationController (in a separate file of course), in a Module you include or a separate class you instantiate and use. All depending on the visibility you need of the other parts of the framework.