Summary
Today's lesson introduces a number of topics that add some teeth to your SQL programming expertise. The basic SQL topics that you learned earlier in this book are extremely important and provide the foundation for all database programming work you undertake. However, these topics are just a foundation. The SQL procedural language concepts explained yesterday and today build on your foundation of SQL. They give you, the database programmer, a great deal of power when accessing data in your relational database.
The Transact-SQL language included with the Microsoft and Sybase SQL Server database products provides many of the popular programming constructs found in popular third- and fourth-generation languages. Its features include the ...
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