September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
24h 25m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
SQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition, is divided into five chapters and two appendixes:
- Chapter 1, SQL History and Implementations
Discusses the Relational Database Model, describes the current and previous SQL standards, and introduces the SQL implementations covered in this book.
- Chapter 2, Foundational Concepts
Describes the fundamental concepts necessary for understanding relational databases and SQL commands.
- Chapter 3, SQL Statement Command Reference
Provides an alphabetical command reference to SQL statements. It details the latest ANSI standard, SQL2003, for each command, as well as the implementation of each command by DB2, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
- Chapter 4, SQL Functions
Provides an alphabetical reference of the SQL2003 functions, describing vendor implementations of all SQL2003 functions. In addition, Chapter 4 includes coverage for all platform-specific functions that are unique to each implementation.
- Chapter 5, Database Programming
Provides an overview of database programming from a variety of connectivity methods. ADO.NET and JDBC are discussed, among other topics.
- Appendix A, Sybase Adaptive Server
Sybase’s Adaptive Server product and Microsoft SQL Server share a common heritage. As a result, most of the SQL Server commands detailed in Chapter 3, and most of the functions detailed in Chapter 4, will work with Sybase. However, “most” is the operative word, and we provide this appendix to show where Sybase differs from SQL ...
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