Learn SQL Database Programming

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "BINARY is like CHAR, but stores byte strings instead of character strings."

A block of code is set as follows:

<books>  <book>    <name>Learn SQL Programming</name>    <author>Josephine Bush</author>  </book></books>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

SELECT * FROM lahmansbaseballdb.appearances;

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: ...