Tiye Baldwin-Anderson
Author of practical SQL books, developer of The Recognition Approach, and founder of Baldwin Apps.
Building books, software, and technical learning tools that help people recognize patterns, reason through complex systems, and develop durable technical skill.
About Tiye Baldwin-Anderson
Tiye Baldwin-Anderson is an author, software professional, and founder of Baldwin Apps. Her work draws on more than 30 years of experience in software and databases and focuses on making technical concepts practical, understandable, and useful.
Her SQL work emphasizes reasoning rather than rote memorization: recognizing recurring query structures, understanding existing SQL, predicting behavior, verifying results, testing assumptions, and strengthening those abilities through deliberate practice.
That work spans books, software, technical essays, and interactive learning tools developed through Baldwin Apps.
The Recognition Approach
Tiye Baldwin-Anderson developed The Recognition Approach, a practical framework for treating SQL competence as a set of related abilities rather than a single skill.
The approach begins with pattern recognition and extends into recall, reading, prediction, verification, adversarial testing, and deliberate practice.
The Recognition Approach was first published in SQL Patterns: The Recognition Approach on June 16, 2026. A foundational essay formally articulating the broader framework was published at BaldwinApps.com on August 7, 2026.
Selected books
A growing body of practical SQL work exploring recognition, verification, data quality, reasoning, and deliberate practice.
SQL Patterns: The Recognition Approach
Learn to identify reusable SQL query shapes instead of treating every problem as an isolated syntax exercise.
View on Amazon →How to Read SQL
A systematic method for reading, predicting, testing, and verifying SQL written by you, your team, or AI.
View on Amazon →SQL Queries for Bad Data
Explore the ways incomplete, misleading, malformed, and difficult data can cause plausible SQL to produce unreliable conclusions.
View on Amazon →SQL Puzzles & Brain Teasers
Strengthen SQL reasoning through practical challenges designed to encourage prediction, questioning, and problem solving.
View on Amazon →Software & technical learning
The same emphasis on practical skill extends beyond books into interactive software and technical tools.
SQL Bubble Pop
An interactive SQL practice app designed to make repetition, recognition, and applied learning more approachable.
Download SQL Bubble Pop →Baldwin Apps
Baldwin Apps develops practical software, educational resources, books, and technical learning tools.
Explore Baldwin Apps →Writing
Foundational essays, technical observations, and practical writing about SQL, software, databases, and technical learning.
Professional background
Tiye Baldwin-Anderson brings more than three decades of experience working with software, databases, SQL, technical systems, and application development.
Her work through Baldwin Apps combines that long technical background with an emphasis on building practical tools people can actually use: software to practice with, books to reason with, and frameworks for understanding technical problems more clearly.
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Explore Tiye Baldwin-Anderson’s published books, technical writing, software, and Baldwin Apps projects.