Preface
THIS BOOK DEALS with the use of various kinds of SQL programming techniques that make use of tables rather than procedural code. I have been telling people that the biggest obstacle to learning SQL is unlearning procedural programming, but saying that does not show someone who has been thinking in files and procedural code his or her entire career how to do things in a declarative relational language. Hence this book, with actual techniques and an explanation of the thought processes that lead to them.
Like all of my other books, this one is for the working SQL programmer who wants to pick up good SQL programming techniques. It assumes that readers know the language well enough to write code that runs and that they are approaching their ...
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