Oracle SQL The Essential Reference 2000.pdf

Oracle SQL

The Essential Reference

Oracle SQL

The Essential Reference

David C. Kreines

Foreword by Ken Jacobs

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Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference

by David C. Kreines

Printed in the United States of America.

Published by O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472.

Editors: Deborah Russell and Jonathan Gennick

Production Editor: Darren Kelly

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Printing History:

September 2000:

First Edition.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kreines, David C.

Oracle SQL : the essential reference / David Kreines.--1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-56592-697-8

1. SQL (Computer program language) 2. Oracle (Computer file) I. Title.

QA76.73.S67 K74 2000

005.75’85—dc21

00-046520

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