Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference is aimed at everyone who needs to access an Oracle database using SQL - developers, DBAs, designers, and general users. It contains all the information you'll need to know about standard SQL, and Oracle's extensions to it, in a single, concise reference volume. It's crammed full of quick-reference tables, performance hints, and summaries of statements, datatypes, and other useful SQL-related information (as well as the SQL Plus and PL/SQL information that SQL practitioners typically need to know), all packaged in an accessible format.

The book contains easy-to-use references to: basic elements of SQL (naming requirements, datatypes, data conversion, operators, etc.); SQL DDL (Data Definition Language), DML (Data Manipulation Language), and functions; SQL Plus and PL/SQL statements and options." "Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference also contains an extensive discussion of how to tune SQL statements and use the Oracle optimizers to get the best performance from your database when you use SQL. The book covers Oracle8 and Oracle8i (through release 8.1.6)."--Jacket.

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