Product Description

Learn all you need to know about SQL with this one-stop resource. Updated to include information on Web services and XML, this complete guide also comes with a Windows 2000- and XP- compatible CD containing 4 databases (SQL Server 2000, IBM DB2 Version 7.2, Sybase, and mySQL).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139312 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1080 pages

Download Description
This one-stop resource will show you everything you need to know about SQL--including coverage of Web services and XML. NOTE: due to the large amount of text and graphics, this eBook file is 18.3 MG. We recommend that you download this eBook using the fastest Internet connection at your disposal, otherwise you may notice a longer downloading time than usual.

Book Info
Provides an in-depth discussion of SQL fundamentals and features, as well as a conceptual framework and insight into relational database technology and its trends. A one-stop resource. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Card catalog description
SQL: The Complete Reference provides an in-depth discussion of SQL fundamentals, modern SQL products, and SQLs role in trends such as data warehousing, "thinclient" architectures, and Internet-based e-commerce. This book is your one-stop resource for all you need to know about SQL.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding cross-platform SQL reference
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This book is the most robust book I have found for cross-platform SQL references.

I have yet to have a design or functional issue that was not covered in the book.

A prgrammers view
As a C++ programmer that does not know C# or VB I found this book very helpful in conjunction with a book specific to the data base I was writting for.
This book will get you started on generic quiries and a book written on your specific data base will fill in the gaps for you. As mentioned in other reviews this book is not up to date on current standards, but as a primer book which this obviously is, standards can be left to a more case specific book.
But as I just stated the real value that I found in this book was in the programming with SQL section, if you do not know C# or VB and you are trying to write code that pulls or updates data to an SQL data base, good luck doing it without this book, I was able to find virtually no other book written for SQL with C or C++. I got my programming bit from this book, and more efficient data base specific look ups and append commands from another, and all the programs I have written thus far work flawlessly. So for that one section alone this book gets five stars.

Good Non-product specific intro to SQL
Good book if you are 100% new to SQL and the concept of queries. Not good if you're looking for a more specific language techniques for particular brands of sql. This book serves well as a nice thick primer before moving on to a more product specific topics.