From Theory to Practice: Installing bookbiz

Once you've designed your database on paper, as discussed in the previous chapter, you're ready to put it online. Using the SQL CREATE commands, you can tell your relational database management system the name, structure, and other characteristics of your database objects. You add data to the database with the INSERT command.

If you use the Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere compact disc distributed with this book (with full create and query capabilities for 60 days), you won't need to type the CREATE or INSERT commands: The bookbiz database has already been set up for you. Just load the program on your PC.

The CD also contains the scripts (sets of SQL commands) used to create the bookbiz database and ...

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