Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!johnl
From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: SQL references.
Summary: C. J. Date has written lots of SQL books
Keywords: SQL Oracle
Message-ID: <2756@ima.ima.isc.com>
Date: 10 Oct 88 02:00:16 GMT
References: <3695@dad.UUCP> <10782@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Organization: Not much
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In article <10782@bellcore.bellcore.com> billp@kitchen.UUCP (Bill Puig) writes:
>The definitve reference on SQL, in my opinion, is "A Guide to DB2"
>by Chris Date and Colin White (2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1988).
>Even though you're specifically interested in ORACLE, ...

Date was written maky "A Guide to ..." including one on Oracle.  They're
all practically the same, which he cheerfully admits, but each it aimed
at a specific version, e.g. DB2, Oracle, or ANSI SQL.  You can probably
find one that talks specifically about Oracle.

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