The Programmer’s Guide to SQL

This book covers Structured Query Language (SQL), the standard that defines how to create and manipulate databases and the data that they store. It works well on two levels: As an in-depth yet concise tutorial on how to use the language, with lots of clearly worked examples and as a handy desktop reference on SQL implementation, covering all the major SQL statements that you’re likely to need when programming databases, with example code for five major database systems: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, and Access.

Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies. He is the author of numerous books, including his popular ASP.NET C# e-commerce tutorial, his Ajax and PHP tutorial, and his search engine optimization tutorial for PHP developers. Cristian studied distributed application architectures for his Ph.D, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say ＂Hi,＂ you can reach Cristian through his personal website, www.CristianDarie.ro.