Appendix B. Working in Popular Applications

As explained in Lesson 1, “Understanding SQL,” SQL is not an application, it is a language. To follow along with the examples in this book, you need an application that supports the execution of SQL statements.

This appendix describes the steps for executing SQL statements in some of the more commonly used applications.

Which Application? You can use any application listed below, and many others, to test and experiment with SQL code. But of all the options available to you, I'd recommend that, if possible, you use Microsoft Query or George Poulose's Query Tool. The former is included with Microsoft Office ...

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