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How This Book Is Organized

SQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition, is divided
into five chapters and two appendixes:

Chapter 1, SQL History and Implementations

Discusses the Relational Database Model, describes the current and
previous SQL standards, and introduces the SQL implementations
covered in this book.

Chapter 2, Foundational Concepts

Describes the fundamental concepts necessary for understanding
relational databases and SQL commands.

Chapter 3, SQL Statement Command Reference

Provides an alphabetical command reference to SQL statements. It
details the latest ANSI standard, SQL2003, for each command, as well
as the implementation of each command by DB2, MySQL, Oracle,
PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

Chapter 4, SQL Functions

Provides an alphabetical reference of the SQL2003 functions,
describing vendor implementations of all SQL2003 functions. In
addition, Chapter 4 includes coverage for all
platform-specific functions that are unique to each implementation.

Chapter 5, Database Programming

Provides an overview of database programming from a variety of
connectivity methods. ADO.NET and JDBC are discussed, among other
topics.

Appendix A, Sybase Adaptive Server

Sybase's Adaptive Server product and Microsoft SQL
Server share a common heritage. As a result, most of the SQL Server
commands detailed in Chapter 3, and most of the
functions detailed in Chapter 4, will work with
Sybase. However, "most" is the
operative word, and we provide this appendix to show where Sybase
differs from SQL Server.

Appendix B, Shared and Platform-Specific Keywords

Provides a table of keywords declared in SQL2003 and by the different
database platforms. You can use this table to look for words that you
should not use for object or variable names.