Features:

- Provides tutorial-based instruction for the main features of SQL for programmers and other technical
   professionals in need of a brief but really goodintroduction to SQL.
- The approach is vendor-neutral—so very adaptable and flexible—but the book's Web site includes
   information about DBMS-specific peculiarities.
- The focus is on teaching concepts by walking through concrete examples and explanations, and self-
   review exercises are included at the end of each chapter.
- Coverage is on the key features of the language that are required to understand SQL and begin using it
   effectively.
- SQL 2003-compliant.

1. Databasics
2. Retrieval: Basic SELECTion
3. Reshaping Results
4. Aggregating Results
5. Jions
6. Set Queries: UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT
7. Subqueries
8. Modifying Data
9. Creating, Deleting, and Altering Tables
10. Views

Etc.