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For the theory aspects:
Foundations of Databases: The Logical Level by Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, and Victor Vianu (quite heavy).
A lighter alternative would be A Guided Tour of Relational Databases and Beyond by Mark Levene and George Loizou.
If you can tolerate his endless ranting, CJ Date's books are also good.
I'm no expert in database certification so I won't comment on them, but they sound expensive. I'm sure you could go a long way in improving your skills by working through some free resources and classic texts.
A nice tutorial on fundamentals is:
http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
A classic introductory to intermediate text is the following. It can get you amazingly far because even advanced topics are explained well:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/
Don't get thrown off by the publication year. The fundamentals of relational databases have barely changed for decades.
An excellent in-depth look at database theory is presented in:
http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Databases-The-Logical-Level/dp/0201537710
For data warehousing and analytical querying (beyond Ramakrishnan et al) this is a great resource:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
Source: I'm a graduate student in databases.