Getting Startedwith pureQuery

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Conventions
Many examples of commands, SQL statements, and code are included throughout the
book. Specific keywords are written in uppercase bold. For example: A NULL value
represents an unknown state. Commands are shown in lowercase bold. For example: The
dir command lists all files and subdirectories on Windows®. SQL statements are shown
in upper case bold. For example: Use the SELECT statement to retrieve information from a
table.
Object names used in our examples are shown in bold italics. For example: The flights
table has five columns.
Italics are also used for variable names in the syntax of a command or statement. If the
variable name has more than one word, it is joined with an underscore. For example:
CREATE TABLE table_name
What’s next?
In addition to the books in the section “Who should read this book?", we recommend you to
review the following books in the DB2 on Campus book series for more details about
related topics:
• Getting Started with DB2 Application Development
• Getting Started with Infosphere Data Architect
• Getting Started with SOA
The following figure shows all the different eBooks in the DB2 on Campus book series
available for free at ibm.com/db2/books