|
Description: The title of this book says it all: it's an extremely complete reference to the SQL language. It covers the SQL-89 and SQL2 standards and indicates the features found in SQL2 but not in SQL-89. It covers not only basic SQL data definition, queries, and updates, but also advanced topics such as transaction processing, security, embedded SQL, stored procedures, and object-oriented databases. It also explains how some of the more popular DBMSs vary from or extend standard SQL. There are some places where the information on SQL is not quite complete. For example, the section on data types doesn't give the sizes of the integer types. As another reviewer mentioned, the section on built-in functions doesn't provide enough information to use some of the more rarely used functions. But these omissions are minor; overall, the completeness of information on SQL is quite impressive. If you're totally new to relational databases, and you need to design a database schema, you'll want to also get a b ..
| ISBN: |
0072118458 |
| Release Date: |
01 March, 1999 |
| List Price: |
$49.99 |
| Author: |
James R. Groff, Paul N. Weinberg |
| Publisher: |
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media |
| Last Updated: |
06/26/2003 |
|
0.00 (out of 5)