SQL: The Complete Reference – Paul N. Weinberg – 2nd Edition

Part I: An Overview of SQL
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. A Quick Tour of SQL
Chapter 3. SQL in Perspective
Chapter 4. Relational Databases

Part II: Retrieving Data
Chapter 5. SQL Basics
Chapter 6. Simple Queries
Chapter 7. Multitable Queries (Joins)
Chapter 8. Summary Queries
Chapter 9. Subqueries and Query Expressions

Part III: Updating Data
Chapter 10. Database Updates
Chapter 11. Data Integrity
Chapter 12. Transaction Processing

Part IV: Database Structure
Chapter 13. Creating a Database
Chapter 14. Views
Chapter 15. SQL Security
Chapter 16. The System Catalog

Part V: Programming with SQL
Chapter 17. Embedded SQL
Chapter 18. Dynamic SQL*
Chapter 19. SQL APIs

Part VI: SQL Today and Tomorrow
Chapter 20. Database Processing and Stored Procedural SQL
Chapter 21. SQL and Data Warehousing
Chapter 22. SQL and Application Servers
Chapter 23. SQL Networking and Distributed Databases
Chapter 24. SQL and Objects
Chapter 25. SQL and XML
Chapter 26. Specialty Databases
Chapter 27. The Future of SQL

Part VII: Appendixes
Appendix A. The Sample Database
Appendix B. DBMS Vendor Profiles
Appendix C. SQL Syntax Reference
Index