July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 19m
English
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Chapter Notes
The SQL standard has been adopted by the International Standards organization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 9075. Copies can be ordered from ISO or via national standards organizations such as ANSI. Because of its size (several thousand pages in total), the standard is split into a number of parts. Part 2 (Foundations) and Part 14 (SQL/XML) are the most relevant to this chapter. Late drafts of SQL:2003 and SQL/XML:2006 are freely available at www.wiscorp.com. The standard continues to evolve, and a new version is expected to be approved in 2008.
Practical books related to SQL tend to be associated with a particular implementation; a notable exception is the series of books by Celko: see, for example Celko (2000). Examples of product-specific ...