Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, 2E is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. Instead of dwelling of database theory and relational design, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of SQL users who simply need to interact with data.

The reader of this book will learn how to:



Retrieve and sort data
Filter data using comparisons and wildcards
Use the aggregate functions to analyze data
Perform insert, update, and delete operations
Join relational tables using inner, outer, and self joins
Combine queries using unions
Use views
Create and use stored procedures, triggers, and other advanced database features