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Title: SQL-99 Complete, Really by Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer ISBN: 0-87930-568-1 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Very useful but sloppy and verbose
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely Well Written and Complete
Comment: While I continue to struggle through the ANSI SQL-99 Standard, this book is a breath of fresh air in understanding. What a fantastic job!
Rating: 5
Summary: A beauty of a SQL reference
Comment: Over a 1000 pages of nicely-written examples, and one of the most complete descriptions of SQL currently available. If you're looking for an up-to-date comprehensive reference on ANSI SQL-99, this is definitely one to consider.
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Title: A Guide to SQL Standard (4th Edition) by C. J. Date, Hugh Darwen ISBN: 0201964260 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 08 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: SQL Performance Tuning by Peter Gulutzan, Trudy Pelzer ISBN: 0201791692 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: SQL: 1999 - Understanding Relational Language Components by Jim Melton, Alan Simon ISBN: 1558604561 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 23 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review and Analysis: A Historical Account and Assessment of E. F. Codd's Contribution to the Field of Database Technology by C. J. Date ISBN: 0201612941 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Head First Java by Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra ISBN: 0596004656 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 21 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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