TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE: SQL in a Nutshell

Ebook Summary:
SQL in a NUTSHELL By Kevin Kline with Daniel Kline

Publisher:O’REILLY

This book is divided into five chapters and one appendix:

Chapter 1, SQL, Vendor Implementations, and Some History

This chapter discusses the Relational Database Model, describes the current

and previous SQL standards, and introduces the SQL vendor implementations

covered in this book.
Chapter 2, Foundational Concepts

This chapter describes the fundamental concepts necessary for understandingrelational databases and SQL commands
Chapter 3, SQL Statements Command Reference

This chapter is an alphabetical command reference. It details each SQL99

command, as well as the implementations of each command by Oracle,

Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Chapter 4, SQL Functions

This chapter is an alphabetical reference of the SQL99 functions, describing

vendor implementations of these functions and vendor extensions.
Chapter 5, Unimplemented SQL99 Commands

This chapter lists commands that are included in the SQL standards, but have

not yet been implemented by any of the vendors.
Appendix, SQL99 and Vendor-Specific Keywords

The appendix provides a table that displays keywords declared in SQL99 and by

the various database vendors.

TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE