Jim Melton is editor of all parts of ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL) and is a representative for database standards at Oracle Corporation. Since 1986, he has been his company's representative to ANSI INCITS Technical Committee H2 for Database and a US representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG3 (Database Languages). In addition, Jim has participated in the W3C's XML Query Working Group since 1998 and is currently co-Chair of that Working Group. He is also Chair of the WG's Full-Text Task Force, co-Chair of the Update Language Task Force, and co-editor of two XQuery-related specifications. He is the author of several SQL books.

• Introduction to SQL:1999. User-Defined Types. Typed Tables. Routines and Routine Invocation. Foreign Servers and Foreign-Data Wrappers. Datalinks. OLAP. SQL/OLB and SQL/JRT. SQL/XML. SQL Multimedia and Application Package. A Look To The Future. Appendix: An SQL:1999 Example Using UDTs. The SQL:1999 Annexes. Relevant Standards Bodies. Status Codes. The SQL Standardization Process.

Jim Melton is editor of all parts of ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL) and is a representative for database standards at Oracle Corporation. Since 1986, he has been his company's representative to ANSI INCITS Technical Committee H2 for Database and a US representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG3 (Database Languages). In addition, Jim has participated in the W3C's XML Query Working Group since 1998 and is currently co-Chair of that Working Group. He is also Chair of the WG's Full-Text Task Force, co-Chair of the Update Language Task Force, and co-editor of two XQuery-related specifications. He is the author of several SQL books.

• Introduction to SQL:1999. User-Defined Types. Typed Tables. Routines and Routine Invocation. Foreign Servers and Foreign-Data Wrappers. Datalinks. OLAP. SQL/OLB and SQL/JRT. SQL/XML. SQL Multimedia and Application Package. A Look To The Future. Appendix: An SQL:1999 Example Using UDTs. The SQL:1999 Annexes. Relevant Standards Bodies. Status Codes. The SQL Standardization Process.

Jim Melton is editor of all parts of ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL) and is a representative for database standards at Oracle Corporation. Since 1986, he has been his company's representative to ANSI INCITS Technical Committee H2 for Database and a US representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG3 (Database Languages). In addition, Jim has participated in the W3C's XML Query Working Group since 1998 and is currently co-Chair of that Working Group. He is also Chair of the WG's Full-Text Task Force, co-Chair of the Update Language Task Force, and co-editor of two XQuery-related specifications. He is the author of several SQL books.

• Introduction to SQL:1999. User-Defined Types. Typed Tables. Routines and Routine Invocation. Foreign Servers and Foreign-Data Wrappers. Datalinks. OLAP. SQL/OLB and SQL/JRT. SQL/XML. SQL Multimedia and Application Package. A Look To The Future. Appendix: An SQL:1999 Example Using UDTs. The SQL:1999 Annexes. Relevant Standards Bodies. Status Codes. The SQL Standardization Process.