Publisher's Synopsis
Please note this is a Short Discount publication.;SQL is a query language used to manipulate databases, SQL was developed by IBM to stop proliferation of multiple database interfaces that at the time were proliferating. SQL breaks the database world into four categories: data definition, manipulation, query and control. With the development of SQL and standards groups that are attempting to develop multi-vendor versions of SQL, vendors have begun to develop SQL servers that run on networks.;As with network operating systems, as the SQL software became popular a number of vendors entered the market with specialized hardware designed to enhance the performance of SQL applications. These technologies will probably become available for the development of more general database servers in the future. In the future, some of these SQL servers may even be generalized and appear in the already crowded arena of high performance servers.;This report provides an overview of the development and issues in the area of SQL servers as well as an overview of the most important currently available products.
