- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: R & D; Pap/Cdr edition (1 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0879305681
- ISBN-13: 978-0879305680
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.7 x 5.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,911,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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SQL is the dominant mode of database programming used in industry. This text contains descriptions of the SQL3 standards (released in Summer 1999) for syntax, data structures and retrieval processes of SQL databases. It is an example-based reference manual, and includes all of the CLI functions.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for SQL, Not so good for SQL-99,
By A Customer
This review is from: SQL 3 Complete, Really (Paperback)
Overall this is a very good book for explaining the SQL language. But it does not fully supply the coverage of the newer SQL-99 statements. The syntax is explained, but not some of the clauses within them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good,
By A Customer
This review is from: SQL 3 Complete, Really (Paperback)
I have read it and I am very pleased. A good coverage of SQL standard. Very helpful for beginners and experts who wants to master SQL. The Very best SQL-book I have ever read.Only minus is that Ocelot is not so good for testing, because it can't execute complex queries.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very useful but sloppy and verbose,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: SQL 3 Complete, Really (Paperback)
If/when there is an SQL-99 edition of "SQL--The Standard Handbook" by Cannan & Otten, forget about this book. Cannan & Otten's book about SQL-92 is clearer and better organised. I'd have been lost in this book had I not read Cannan & Otten first.Content editing is sloppy. For example, we learn on p62 that unary + changes the sign of an operand. On p67, we are given an improved arithmetic expression which computes something completely different from its original. On p61, we are given a recipe for rounding that doesn't work for negative numbers. And so it goes. One thing Gulutzan & Pelzer provide but Cannan & Otten didn't is a free SQL system. I have accounts/access to seven different machines with five different CPUs and six different operating systems, but the software does not run on any of them, so I cannot review the software. Neither, for that matter, do the HTML files work. In a typical piece of sloppiness, the file names on the disc are like "appb.htm" but the references inside the files are like "appB.html". I had to copy all the HTML files and rename them before they were browsable. In a book this size internal cross-references need to be very good. Modern SGML-based publishing technology makes it easy to produce excellent internal links. This book could be better, and as it is a reference book, it really should be better. A trap for young players: in 1997 I found that a major vendor who claimed SQL 92 conforrmance was being economical with the truth. They conformed to the SQL 89 subset of SQL 92, but on fairly basic things like VARCHAR fields, did not conform. It will be a while before we can rely on some of the new stuff in SQL 99 being available. Just because there is something useful described in the book, don't expect to be able to use it yet. The advice about what is in the Core and what is not is *VERY* useful. Producing this book must have been an enormous amount of work, and despite my whinging, it will save its readers an enormous amount of work trying to make sense of a rather prolix and complex standard. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best technical manual,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: SQL 3 Complete, Really (Paperback)
SQL-99 book has been a great help to me. It is the best technical manual i've read over the last years. Without it i could not have done my coding.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Very helpful,
By Deecee - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: SQL 3 Complete, Really (Paperback)
This book helped my efforts writing cross-database applications, open source libraries and educational materials. I've used it as a reference book. Reading it cover to cover should only be left to those with a _lot_ of time on their hands.
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