This guide combines the proven tutorial approach to teaching SQL with a collection of major SQL statements with example code for five major database systems: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and Access.

IBM and the rest of the computer industry are putting most of their DBMS development efforts into SQL. This reference provides the SQL/400 skills that a successful applications developer needs and shows how to create comprehensive, complex, and professional SQL/400 databases.

A guide to SQL covers such topics as retrieving records, metadata queries, working with strings, data arithmetic, date manipulation, reporting and warehousing, and hierarchical queries.

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