Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Maybe I am not smart enough to read at Celko's level but the book kept losing me with all of its wordy distractions. I kept thinking to myself, "ok get to the point already". Overall I did like the underlying message of getting out of the row by row processing and moving to a set based approach when manipulation data. I just found the book hard to read.