Which Platform and Version?

All the recipes in this book were tested for compatibility with SQL Server 2000. Most of them have also been tested on SQL Server 7. Some recipes use the new ANSI join syntax supported by SQL Server 2000. Those recipes will require some minor modifications for them to work on older SQL Server releases.

While not as commonly encountered as it used to be, Sybase also uses Transact-SQL. Sybase's Transact-SQL is not 100% compatible with Microsoft's Transact-SQL, but we've coded the recipes so that, in the vast majority of cases, they will also work for Sybase.