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A Guide to SQL Standard (4th Edition)
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Author: C. J. Date, Hugh Darwen
List Price: $47.95
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ISBN: 0201964260
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (08 November, 1996)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 33,147
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
SQL For Real Programmers
If you are a newbie looking how to make a Select statement work, this probably isn't for you. On the other hand, if you are experienced and want a book to help you understand how and why many DB's function like they do...buy this
Rating: 1 out of 5
This book is incomplete
The word index at the end of the book is a poor joke, for example words like "TRIGGER" and "PROCEDURE" are missing, but you can find completely useless references to expressions used as identifiers.Examples given are most trivial, for example I didn't manage to find how to return a recordset from a stored procedure. Save your money, download free stuff floating around in the net.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Rather narrow in scope, and for experts only
If you are looking for a book that will take you through the SQL standard, explaining what each part means and how to use each feature, then you need to look elsewhere. If you are an expert SQL user, and interested in some of the intimate detail of the standard, for example the way time and dates work, and why they work the way they do, this may well be the book for you, but it?s still expensive for the number of pages. If you known the basics well already, and want to become a power SQL user, then I?d recommend Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
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