Advanced SQL: 1999 - Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features is the practitioner's handbook for advanced standard features. * Focus completely on the issues important to the programmer that connects to the database application. * Details of the SQL: 1999 object facilities, including user-defined structured types, typed tables, user-defined routines, and regular prayer. * Checking for new facilities for SQL, including those related to on-line analytical processing (OLAP), management of external data (SQL / MED), and Java support. * Covers the ongoing development of XML support. * Includes appendices that include the SQL: 1999 annex, SQL: 1999 for example using UDTs, status codes, and information useful in the standardization process.