Includes index.; On t.p. of previous ed., James R. Groff's name appeared first.; Introduction -- A quick tour of SQL -- SQL in perspective -- Relational databases -- SQL basics -- Simple queries -- Multitable queries (Joins) -- Summary queries -- Subqueries and query expressions -- Database updates -- Data integrity -- Transaction processing -- Creating a database -- Views -- SQL security -- The system catalog -- Embedded SQL -- Dynamic SQL* -- SQL APIs -- Database processing and stored procedural SQL -- SQL and data warehousing -- SQL and application servers -- SQL Networking and distributed databases -- SQL and objects -- SQL and XML -- Specialty databases -- The future of SQL -- The sample database -- DBMS vendor profiles -- SQL syntax reference.;