Anyone who needs to interact with today's modern databases needs to know SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving information from a relational database. "Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005" offers a complete introduction to the language for those of you who need to learn Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. The book assumes no prior database knowledge, whether you work for your company's IT department, are an undergraduate computer science or MIS course student, or a self-learner who has access to the latest Microsoft database. "Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005" is based on the authors' introductory database course that uses SQL Server.