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Preface........................ .................................... .........................xvii 1. An Introduction to

SQL............................. ..............................1 2. An Overview of the SELECT Statement....................

.............23 FROM

3.

The

Clause......................... .................................... .......35 Index........................... .................................... .........................287 Summary of Additional Book Contents 4. The WHERE Clause......................... .................................... .....73 5. The GROUP BY Clause.........................

.................................1 03 6. The HAVING Clause......................... .................................... .125 7. The SELECT Clause......................... .................................... .133 8. The ORDER BY Clause......................... .................................1 61 9. SQL Data

Types.......................... .................................... ......183 10. Relational Integrity.......................

.................................... .211 11. Special

Structures.................... .................................... ......237 A. Testing

Environment................ .................................... .......253 B. Sample

Applications................. .................................... ......259 C. Sample

Scripts......................... .................................... ........265 D. SQL

Keywords....................

.................................... .............285

3. SIMPLY SQL BY RUDY LIMEBACK

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5. v About the Author Rudy Limeback is a semi-retired Consultant SQL living in

Toronto, Canada. His broad SQL experience spans more than 20 years, working and includes DB2,

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SQL Server, Access, Oracle, and MySQL. Hes an avid

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golf. About the Expert Reviewer Joe Celko

served ten years on ANSI/ISO SQL

Standards Committee and contributed to the SQL-89 and SQL-92 standards. He is the author of seven books on SQL for Morgan Kaufmann, written columns computer academic mostly dealing and has 800 the and

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