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Re: SQL Best Book for Writing SQL queries

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From: Joe Yuzamas
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:00
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Timothy - I have read three books on SQL and they all have the same
statement in them. Check your implementation of SQL for the final word. No
two implementations of SQL are the same. Each vender (Borland, MS, Etc.)
add there own enhancements, but the basics are in every book.
-- 
Joe  < jyuzamas@wrdiss1.robins.af.mil or jyuzamas@sprynet.com >

Timothy Tucker <tltucker@enol.com> wrote in article
<34E3C9DC.F85@enol.com>...
> > "The Borland Database Engine (BDE) enables access to both local and
> > remote database tables through local SQL (Structure Query Language).
> > Local SQL (sometimes called "client-based SQL") is a subset of ANSI-92
> > SQL enhanced to support Paradox and dBASE (standard) naming conventions
> > for tables and fields (called "columns" in SQL)."
> 
> So if I buy the book it will be very useful to me!  That is good.  I
> hate buying books that turn out to be useless.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Tim
> 
> by the way can you do test with SQL that search strings for certain
> characters?  Example:  
> 	
> 	"it" is in "City"
> 
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From: "Joe Yuzamas" <jyuzamas@wrdiss1.robins.af.mil>
Subject: Re: SQL Best Book for Writing SQL queries
Date: 1998/02/13
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