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Review title: A great introduction to the concepts of SQL:1999
Product review: The SQL:1999 standard was not written to teach people how to use the language. It is written in a precise, formal manner that is very useful for implementors, but makes it difficult for most people to read, and assumes extensive knowledge of many concepts. (I am an editor of several W3C XQuery specifications - you can't write a specification as a tutorial, that's not what it is for.)Jim is the editor of SQL:1999, but in this book he provides the concepts and the examples that users need to understand the standard. Unlike many books on SQL, Jim describes the SQL standard, rather than the proprietary dialect of a given vendor. This book is readable and interesting, explaining not only what the standard says, but how the standard thinks.I work for a company that makes JDBC and ODBC drivers, and this is the book that our development manager recommended to me when I was looking for this kind of information.
