Re: where can i get the ANSI SQL standards?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:39:29 GMT
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>> What about a fella named Celko? <<
ISO makes it money selling hardcopy documents and they are opposed to
putting anything on the Internet or having it passed around in
electronic format.
ANSI gets its money from membership dues and has wanted to get a
website with all the standards on it. But they are a member of ISO and
cannot do it with the common standards like SQL.
Besides, the things are damn near unreadable. I like SQL: THE STANDARD
HANDBOOK by Stephen Canaan and Gerard Otten (ISBN 0-07-707664-8)as my
guide. THE SQL STANDARD by Chris DATE (ISBN 0-201-96426-0) is okay,
but Chris will editorialize about the things he does not like. For
example, the informationon NULLs is in one place, instead of appearing
in all the various places they occur.
--CELKO--
Joe Celko, SQL and Database Consultant
When posting, inclusion of SQL (CREATE TABLE ..., INSERT ..., etc)
which can be cut and pasted into Query Analyzer is appreciated.
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Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 19:39:29 CEST