[nickjj]

Is it aimed at developers from ground 0, or someone with 10+ years of experience?

I've been working with both raw SQL and ORMs for a pretty long time. I'm definitely not at the DBA-tier and really complex queries scare the shit out of me but I haven't ever hit a complete roadblock when it came to modeling and querying data in a reasonably efficient way.

With that said, an ideal book for me would be one that just showed 100+ real world data modeling examples and how to query it in a bunch of real ways. Ideally an expert's thought process would be explained every step of the way. It'd happily pay $100+ for that just because I'm sure using it as a reference guide would save me enough hours in dev time to make it worth it.

[tapoueh]

You know what? Just buy the book and if you don't like it, tell me. I'll refund you. My guess is that you will like it ;-)