Appendix A. SQL
SQL (Structured Query Language) is an industry standard language for building and manipulating relational databases and their content. SQL includes statements for adding, selecting, ordering, and deleting records. It also contains statements for defining the database structure.
Unfortunately not every database implements all SQL statements in exactly the same way. Some provide extra features that are not available in other database engines. This book focuses on Transact-SQL, the version of SQL implemented by SQL Server. You can find detailed information on Transact-SQL at Microsoft’s Web site. Currently this information is available at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_tsqlcon_6lyk.asp
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