SQL, is a database query language that was adopted as an industry standard in 1986 and allows users to create a database and to pose complex questions of the database. For this work, the author assumes that the reader has no programming experience but is familiar with technology. Learn SQL in a Weekend is structured to enable the reader to set up an SQL database at the end of the first session of the book. Readers should gain a complete understanding of important topics in SQL such as database security, embedded SQL and using triggers. THe volume covers SQL with Visual Basic/Visual Basic.NET, Office, Visual C++/Visual C++.NET, ASP/ASP.NET, and PowerBuilder.