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SQL Reference

Release 3 (8.1.7)

September 2000

Part No. A85397-01

SQL Reference, Release 3 (8.1.7)

Part No. A85397-01

Primary Author: Diana Lorentz

Contributors: Dave Alpern, Vikas Arora, Lance Ashdown, Hermann Baer, Vladimir Barriere, Lucy Burgess, Souripriya Das, Carolyn Gray, John Haydu, Thuvan Hoang, Wei Hu, Namit Jain, Hakan Jakobsson, Bob Jenkins, Mark Johnson, Jonathan Klein, Susan Kotsovolos, Vishu Krishnamurthy, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Paul Lane, Geoff Lee, Nina Lewis, Bryn Llewellyn, Phil Locke, David McElhoes, Jack Melnick, Ari Mozes, Subramanian Muralidhar, Ravi Murthy, Sujatha Muthulingam, Bruce Olsen, Alla S Pfauntsch, Tom Portfolio, Kevin Quinn, Ananth Raghavan, Den Raphaely, John Russell, Anant Singh, Rajesh Sivaramasubramaniom, Roger Snowden, Jags Srinivisan, Sankar Subramanian, Murali Thiyagarajah, Michael Tobie, AhnTuan Tran, Randy Urbano, Andy Witkowski, Daniel Wong, Aravind Yalamanchi, Qin Yu, Fred Zemke, Mohamed Ziauddin

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