About This Book

    This book is not just about SQL, but also about how SQL fits into the process of creating and maintaining databases adn database applications. In this book, I cover how SQL fits into the larger world of application development and how it handles data coming in from other computers, which may be on the other side of the world, or even in interplanetary space.

Here are some of the things you can do with this book:

- Create a model of a proposed system and then translate that model into a database
- Find out about the capabilities and limitations of SQL
- Discover how to develop reliable and maintainable database systems
- Create Databases
- Speed up database queries
- Protect databases from hardware failures, software bugs, and Internet attacks
- Control access to sensitive information
- Write effective database applications
- Deal with data from a variety of non-traitional data sources using XML

Book I: SQL Concepts
Book II: Relational Database Development
Book III: SQL Queries
Book IV: Data Security
Book V: SQL and Programming
Book VI: SQL and XML
Book VII: Database Tuning Overview
Book VIII: Appendixes
Appendix A: SQL:2003 Reserved Words
Appendix B: Glossary