SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
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Author(s): K. E. Kline with D. Kline and B. Hunt
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780596518844
Format: softback
591pp
Price: £34.50
Review Date: 20 April 2009
Review: The book describes the latest ANSI standard, SQL2003 version of each SQL command, together with each platform’s implementation of it. There is also a concise explanation of the relational database management system (RDMS). The book also provides a guide to the most popular commercial database packages, Microsoft SQL server and Oracle. It also provides a guide to the best-known open source database products, MySQL and PostgreSQL. The book is primarily a command reference rather than a tutorial work, the book begins where the vendor documentation end by using the experience of professional database administrators and developers who have used their SQL variants on a regular basis. Chapters are 1. SQL history and implementation, 2. Foundational concepts, 3. SQL statement command reference, 4 SQL functions, appendix: shared platform-specific keywords.