Re: Learning Interbase "style"

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From: Peter Gulutzan
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:54

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"Bradley J. Bell" <bradleyjbell@attb3i.c1o2m> wrote in message news:<3e0492ad$1@newsgroups.borland.com>...

> Maybe the problem is that I'm coming from a Sybase environment. I guess
> Sybase doesn't do things in a "SQL-92 standard" way. I haven't found any
> SQL-92 standard books either. They all seem to be Sybase, Oracle, SqlServer.

The classic SQL-92 book was Date + Darwen's "Guide To The SQL Standard"
(fourth edition, Addison-Wesley 1997) which is still in print, and very
good: concise and error-free.

It is of course true that most books are about Oracle+DB2+SQL Server (not
so much Sybase nowadays), since that's where most of the market is. I would
not say that InterBase is ignored -- for example, SQL Performance Tuning
(which I co-authored) has some coverage of it. 

There are other SQL books which try to be generic or which try to include
the SQL-99 standard syntax. We try to keep an up-to-date list of them,
with links to reviews and sample chapters, at
http://www.ocelot.ca/books.htm.

Peter Gulutzan

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