Learn SQL

This book covers the standard SQL language and teaches the concepts necessary for the creation of database objects, such as tables, indexes, and synonyms, focusing particularly on the SELECT command as the core of the language. A reference section provides a guide to several of Microsoft's SQL variations. The enclosed CD-ROM contains a trial version of a SQLBase database and an evaluation copy of Extended System's Advantage Database Server 5.5. Ramalho has worked for 17 years publishing and consulting in the computer industry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jose Ramalho is an international consultant and journalist who is also a best-selling computer book author in Brazil.

He has over 17 years of experience writing computer books and consulting and has over 68 titles published in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. He is also a columnist for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, and the former editor in chief of the leading database magazine in Brazil, DBMS.

Ramalho is also the author of Learn Advanced HTML 4.0 with DHTML (1-55622-586-5), Learn Personal Oracle 8.0 with Power Objects 2.0 (1-55622-546-6), Learn MS SQL 7.0 (1-55622-639-X), and the forthcoming Data Warehousing with MS SQL 7.0 (1-55622-718-3) from Wordware Publishing.