SQL - The Structured Query Language

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you'll learn how to use SQL to build effective databases, efficiently retrieve your data, and manage everything from performance to security! Using this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, you'll learn hands-on through practical examples. Each lesson builds on what you've already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation for success. The authors guide you from the absolute basics to advanced techniques - including views, transactions, Web data publishing, and even powerful SQL extensions for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server!

SQL: A Comparative Survey is a companion to Hugh Darwen's An Introduction to Relational Database Theory, best studied in parallel with that text. Closely following the structure of the theory book, it shows how the examples in that book can be expressed in SQL. SQL's many deviations from relational database theory are thus exposed and their consequences discussed. Drawing on the author's long experience as a member of the committee responsible for production of the ISO SQL standard, the book includes copious Historical Notes showing how SQL has evolved from its very beginnings in the 1970s.

Introductory text for learning SQL, it shows you how to use the language with crystal-clear explanations and examples. For more advanced and vendor-specific topics (triggers, stored procs, etc.) you'll probably need to look at the vendor's documentation.

SQL is a standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases.

This book written to provide clear and concise explanation of topics for programmers both starting to learn the Structured Query Language (SQL) as well as those diving in more complex topics. Most examples are linked to online playground that allows you to change the code and re-run it.

SQL, or structured query language, is theinternational standard language for creating and maintainingrelational databases. It is the basis of all major databases in usetoday and is essential for the storage and retrieval of database information.

SQL is the language of data, and therefore the intermediary language for those who straddle the line between technology and business. Every business application needs a database and SQL is the key to working with these databases.

This book is an introduction to the basics of SQL. No prior experience with SQL is necessary, but some knowledge of working with computers in general is required. My purpose of writing this was to provide a gentle tutorial on the syntax of SQL, so that the reader is able to recognize the parts of queries they encounter and even be able to write simple SQL statements and queries themselves. The book however is not intended as a reference work or for a full time database administrator since it does not have an exaustive topic coverage.

This book helps developers to improve database performance. The focus is on SQL, covers all major SQL databases without getting lost in the details of any one specific product.

SQL was, is and always will be the database language for relational database systems such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Get comprehensive coverage of every aspect of SQL from three leading industry experts. This one-stop guide explains how to build, populate, and administer high-performance databases and develop robust SQL-based applications.

You may know SQL basics, but are you taking advantage of its expressive power? This book applies a highly practical approach to Structured Query Language (SQL) so you can create and manipulate large stores of data.