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Conventions Used in This Book

Constant Width: Used to indicate programming syntax, code fragments, and examples.
Italic: Used to introduce new terms, for emphasis, and to indicate commands or user-specified file and directory names.
Bold: Used to display the names of database objects, such as tables, columns, and stored procedures.
UPPERCASE: Used to indicate SQL keywords.

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