 
SQL: 1999 - Understanding Relational Language Components / Edition 2
by Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon
This book is the best way to make the leap from SQL-92 to SQL:1999, but it is much more than just a simple bridge between the two. The latest from celebrated SQL experts Jim Melton and Alan Simon, SQL:1999 is a comprehensive, eminently practical account of SQL's latest incarnation and a potent distillation of the details required to put it to work./i>
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This book is the best way to make the leap from SQL-92 to SQL:1999, but it is much more than just a simple bridge between the two. The latest from celebrated SQL experts Jim Melton and Alan Simon, SQL:1999 is a comprehensive, eminently practical account of SQL's latest incarnation and a potent distillation of the details required to put it to work. Written to accommodate both novice and experienced SQL users, SQL:1999 focuses on the language's capabilities, from the basic to the advanced, and the ways that real applications take advantage of them. Throughout, the authors illustrate features and techniques with clear and often entertaining references to their own custom database, which can be downloaded from the companion Web site.
Features
- Gives authoritative coverage from an expert team that includes the editor of the SQL-92 and SQL:1999 standards.
- Provides a general introduction to SQL that helps you understand its constituent parts, history, and place in the realm of computer languages.
- Explains SQL:1999's more sophisticated features, including advanced value expressions, predicates, advanced SQL query expressions, and support for active databases.
- Explores key issues for programmers linking applications to SQL databases.
- Provides guidance on troubleshooting, internationalization, and changes anticipated in the next version of SQL.
- Contains appendices devoted to database design, a complete SQL:1999 example, the standardization process, and more.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9781558604568
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Science
- Publication date:
- 06/01/2001
- Series:
- Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems Series
- Edition description:
- Subsequent
- Pages:
- 893
- Product dimensions:
- 7.34(w) x 9.18(h) x 1.67(d)
Table of Contents
Preface 
Chapter 1 - Database and Technology Foundations 
Chapter 2 - Introduction to SQL:1999 
Chapter 3 - Basic Table Creation and Data Manipulation 
Chapter 4 - Basic Data Definition Language 
Chapter 5 - Values, Basic Functions and Expressions 
Chapter 6 - Advanced Value Expressions 
Chapter 7 - Predicates 
Chapter 8 - Working with Multiple Tables 
Chapter 9 - Advanced SQL Query Expressions 
Chapter 10 - Constraints, Assertions, and Referential Integrity 
Chapter 11 - Active Databases 
Chapter 12 - Accessing SQL From the Real World 
Chapter 13 - Cursors 
Chapter 14 - Privileges, Users, and Security 
Chapter 15 - Transaction Management 
Chapter 16 - Connections and Remote Database Access 
Chapter 17 - Routines and Routine Invocations 
Chapter 18 - Dynamic SQL: 1999 
Chapter 19 - Call-Level Interface 
Chapter 20 - Diagnostics and Error Management 
Chapter 21 - Internationalization Aspects of SQL: 1999 
Chapter 22 - Information Schema 
Chapter 23 - A Look to the Future 
Appendix A - Designing SQL:1999 Databases 
Appendix B - An SQL:1999 Application Example 
Appendix C - The SQL:1999 Annexes 
Appendix D - Relevant Standards Bodies 
Appendix E - Status Codes 
Appendix F - The SQL Standardization Process
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