The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language - Softcover

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Judith S. Bowman has been a database professional since the early 1980s. She is currently an independent consultant specializing in SQL and relational database issues and is the author of Practical SQL: The Sequel (Addison-Wesley, 2001). Sandra L. Emerson is an independent consultant and former Vice President of Publishing Programs for Sybase. Marcy Darnovsky, teaches at colleges throughout the San Francisco Bay area. She was formerly at Sybase.

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The Practical SQL Handbook is the best-selling guide to learning SQL, the standard language for accessing information in relational databases. This book not only teaches SQL as it has been established by ANSI standards committees but also as the language is used to solve real business problems.

You'll learn step-by-step the basic vocabulary and functions of the language and the processes and issues involved in developing robust applications. This book provides a thorough grounding in the basics of database design, security, and integrity. You will learn SQL pragmatically, by creating a sample database and then working through dozens of examples with it.

Fully updated to cover the ANSI SQL '92 standard, the third edition of The Practical SQL Handbook includes a cookbook of specific solutions, ready-to-use code, and general strategies for common business database challenges.

Find out how to:

• create and use views
  
• use and apply subqueries
  
• join tables for comprehensive data analysis
  
• handle null values
  
• create reports using groups and aggregate functions

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The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language, Third Edition

Judith S Bowman, Sandra L Emerson and Marcy Darnovsky

The Practical SQL Handbook is the best-selling guide to learning SQL, the standard language for accessing information in

relational databases. This book not only teaches SQL as it has been established by ANSI standards committees but also as

the language is used to solve real business problems.

You'll learn step-by-step the basic vocabulary and functions of the language and the processes and issues involved in

developing robust applications. This book provides a thorough grounding in the basics of database design, security, and integrity. You will learn SQL

pragmatically, by creating a sample database and then working through dozens of examples with it.

Fully updated to cover the ANSI SQL '92 standard, the third edition of The Practical SQL Handbook includes a cookbook of specific solutions,

ready-to-use code, and general strategies for common business database challenges.

Find out how to:

create and use views

use and apply subqueries

join tables for comprehensive data analysis

handle null values

create reports using groups and aggregate functions

Bonus CD-ROM -- Get Hands-On Practice Using SQL!

The CD-ROM includes the Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT versions of the Sybase(r) 3.0 SQL Anywhere(tm) Runtime, a full-featured SQL

database. About the Authors

Judith S Bowman

Judith S. Bowman has worked as a database professional since the early 1980s at Sybase and other database companies. She currently works as an

independent database consultant. She is the lead author of all three editions of The Practical SQL Handbook (Addison-Wesley, 1996).

Other Titles by Judith S Bowman Practical SQL: The Sequel (2001) 0-201-61638-6 The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language, (1993) 0-201-62623-3

Sandra L Emerson

Sandra L. Emerson, former Vice President of Publishing Programs for Sybase, Inc., is a consultant.

Other Titles by Sandra L Emerson The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language, (1993) 0-201-62623-3

Marcy Darnovsky

Marcy Darnovsky, formerly with Sybase, Inc., teaches at Bay Area colleges.

Other Titles by Marcy Darnovsky The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language, (1993) 0-201-62623-3