Title: good but dated....only covers sql92
Review: This book contains both formal syntax and good examples, and is reasonably concise. It is comparable to Melton's book "Understanding the New SQL", though the graphics are better in Melton's book. It was published in 1996, so does not cover more recent standards. It covers SQL92, which was the major revision, but there have been three smaller revisions since then. Thus it does not cover SQL analytical functions, triggers and a few other things that have come into popular use.It is strictly about the standard and does not refer to products. If you are using a particular DBMS, you might prefer a product specific book since there are so many extensions to and variants from the standard in actual database products.
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