The Programmer's Guide to SQL [Paperback]

This guide combines the proven tutorial approach to teaching SQL with a collection of major SQL statements with example code for five major database systems: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and Access.

STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL) is the language of the database. It's a stan? dard that defines how to manipulate almost every aspect of database, from creating the database and tables themselves to creating, reading, inserting, updating, and deleting data in the database. This standard is then implemented and extended differently by each database system vendor. The current version of the SQL standard is SQL-99. Most major database platforms now adhere fairly closely to this standard with a couple of exceptions. Microsoft Access, for example, has only recently (with Access XP) adopted the SQL-92 standard. Previous editions of Access supported only SQL-89. In this book, we'll walk through all the major SQL statements you're likely to need when programming databases. We'll highlight differences between the standard and implementations used in five major database systems: SQLServer Oracle DB2 MySQL Access Who Is This Book For? This book is designed to meet the needs of both the novice SQL programmer who needs a bit of syntactical help and the developer using SQL day to day who needs a handy desktop SQL reference. You don't need to have done much data? base programming before, but some experience with databases will be useful. You should also have one of the five database systems mentioned earlier to gain the most benefits from this book.A table of contents is not available for this title.Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies. He is the author of numerous books, including his popular ASP.NET C# e-commerce tutorial, his Ajax and PHP tutorial, and his search engine optimization tutorial for PHP developers. Cristian studied distributed application architectures for his Ph.D, and is getting involÛ