A Guide to the SQL Standard: A User's Guide to the Standard Database Language SQL

A Guide to the SQL Standard: A User's Guide to the Standard Database Language SQL
ISBN-10
0201964260
ISBN-13
9780201964264
Category
Computers / Languages / SQL
Pages
522
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Addison-Wesley
Authors
C. J. Date, Hugh Darwen

Description

franca database management; it provides the basis for systems interoperability, application portability, client/server operation, distributed database, and more, and is supported by just about every DBMS on the market today. SQL2 - or, to give it its official name, the International Standard Database language SQL (1992) - represents a major set of extensions to the earlier SQL standard. For a start, the new specification is well over 600 pages, compared with less than 100 for the original version. No database professional can afford to ignore it. Features *Thorough revision of the official ANSI standard for SQL. * Covers all important new SQL2 features including extensive integrity support, powerful new operators, national and international character data support and comprehensive date and time support. * Continues the tradition of careful, clear, and accurate explanations of complex technical material Features New to this Edition * Covers extensive integrity support, powerful new operators, national and international character data support, all features of SQL2; comprehensive date and time support and clear explanation of the complexitites of Dynamic SQL, all features of SQL2. * P

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