JOE CELKO'S DATA, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS IN SQL
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By Joe Celko, Independent Consultant & Columnist for Intelligent Enterprise, USA
Description Joe Celko has looked deep into the code of SQL programmers and found a consistent and troubling pattern - a frightening lack of consistency
between their individual encoding schemes and those of the industries in which they operate. This translates into a series of incompatible
databases, each one an island unto itself that is unable to share information with others in an age of internationalization and business
interdependence. Such incompatibility severely hinders information flow and the quality of company data.
Data, Measurements and
Standards in SQL reveals the shift these programmers need to make to overcome this deadlock. By collecting and detailing the diverse
standards of myriad industries, and then giving a declaration for the units that can be used in an SQL schema, Celko enables readers
to write and implement portable data that can interface to any number of external application systems!
This book doesn't limit
itself to one subject, but serves as a detailed synopsis of measurement scales and data standards for all industries, thereby giving
RDBMS programmers and designers the knowledge and know-how they need to communicate effectively across business boundaries.
Audience
Working SQL programmers, database administrators, database designers, database analysts, and application system developers as well as
those who are developing new features for DBMSs who want to know about users' ideas and needs. The book would also be of interest to
anyone working with electronic information, not necessarily in the relational database context, but also XML, Web sites, etc.
Contents 0.0. Introduction
1.0. Scales and Measurement Theory
2.0. Data Encoding Schemes
2.1. Classification
2.2. Check Digits
3.0. Physical
Measurements
3.1. Brief History of Measurement Standards
3.2. Rise of ISO and Other Organizations
3.3. ISO-2955 Standard
3.3.1. Basic
Units
3.3.2. Compound Units
3.4. Color Systems
4.0. Temporal Measurements
4.1. The Calendar
4.1.1. A History of the Common Era Calendar
4.1.2. ISO-8601 Standard
4.1.3. Implementations in SQL
4.2. The Clock
4.2.1. Leap Seconds, UTC and Atomic Clocks
4.2.2. Time Zones
in SQL
5.0. Industry Standards For Products
5.1. UPC and EAN Bar Codes
5.2. Standard Packaging Units
5.2.1. U.S. Systems
5.2.2. European
Union and Other European Systems
5.2.3. Asian and Other Systems
5.3. Bank Standards
5.3.1. Account Numbers
5.3.2. Checking
5.3.2.1.
U.S. Banking System
5.3.2.2. IBAN and Other International Standards
6.0. Postal Address Encoding
6.1. Formatting Names
6.2. ZIP Codes
in the United States
6.3. Various Foreign Systems
6.4. Systems Used by UPS and other Delivery Services
7.0. Currency
7.1. GAAP Rules
in the United States
7.2. Rules for Euro Conversions
8.0. Internet
8.1. Email Addresses
8.2. IP Addresses
9.0. Business Codes
9.1.
The Rise and Fall of EDI and ANSI X12
9.2. XML Standards in Various Industries
9.3. Company Identifiers
9.3.1. DUNS
9.3.2. Stock Ticker
Symbols
9.4. Chart of Accounts
10.0. Medical Systems
10.1. ICD Codes
10.2. HIPAA Codes
10.3. Drug Codes
11.0. General Classification
Systems
11.1. Alphabetic Order
11.1.1. History
11.1.2. Problems with Foreign Alphabets
11.2. Dewey Decimal Classification
11.3. Library
of Congress
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