Understanding SQL & Java Together: A Guide to SQLJ, JDBC, and Related Technologies

A comprehensive guide to how the marriage of SQL and Java is forging a new era in object-oriented databases.
This appendix contains the syntax used to create user-defined types in SQL. The syntax in this appendix is taken from SQL:1999. It is not the complete syntax for these features we have rearranged it a bit to make it more readable, and we have pruned it to remove extraneous features and options.
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::= REF IS SYSTEM GENERATED ::= [ ] [ ] ::= CAST SOURCE AS REF WITH <a name="1161"></a><a name="IDX-469"></a> ::=