The Practical SQL Handbook
Using SQL Variants
4th Edition
Published on 11. July 2001
Book
Mixed media product
512 pages
978-0-201-70309-2 (ISBN)
Description
This latest edition of the best-selling implementation guide to the Structured Query Language teaches SQL fundamentals while providing practical solutions for critical business applications. The Practical SQL Handbook, Fourth Edition now includes expanded platform SQL coverage and extensive real-world examples based on feedback from actual SQL users.
The Practical SQL Handbook begins with a step-by-step introduction to SQL basics and examines the issues involved in designing SQL-based database applications. It fully explores SQL's most popular implementations from industry leaders, Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, and Informix.
Highlights include:
Detailed coverage of SQL commands for creating databases, tables, and indexes, and for
adding, changing, and deleting data
Using the SELECT command to retrieve specific data
Handling NULL values (missing information) in a relational database
Joining tables, including self joins and outer joins (ANSI and WHERE-clause syntax)
Working with nested queries (subqueries) to get data from multiple tables
Creating views (virtual tables) to provide customized access to data
Using SQL functions
A bonus CD-ROM contains a time-limited, full-feature version of the Sybase (R) Adaptive Server Anywhere (TM) software as well as the sample database, scripts, and examples included in the book.
The Practical SQL Handbook is the most complete reference available for day-to-day SQL implementations.
0201703092B05222001
The Practical SQL Handbook begins with a step-by-step introduction to SQL basics and examines the issues involved in designing SQL-based database applications. It fully explores SQL's most popular implementations from industry leaders, Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, and Informix.
Highlights include:
Detailed coverage of SQL commands for creating databases, tables, and indexes, and for
adding, changing, and deleting data
Using the SELECT command to retrieve specific data
Handling NULL values (missing information) in a relational database
Joining tables, including self joins and outer joins (ANSI and WHERE-clause syntax)
Working with nested queries (subqueries) to get data from multiple tables
Creating views (virtual tables) to provide customized access to data
Using SQL functions
A bonus CD-ROM contains a time-limited, full-feature version of the Sybase (R) Adaptive Server Anywhere (TM) software as well as the sample database, scripts, and examples included in the book.
The Practical SQL Handbook is the most complete reference available for day-to-day SQL implementations.
0201703092B05222001
More details
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
890 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-70309-2 (9780201703092)
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Judith S. Bowman | Sandra L. Emerson | Marcy Darnovsky
The Practical SQL Handbook
Using Structured Query Language
Book
11/1996
3rd Edition
Addison Wesley
€37.71
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Persons
Judith S. Bowman has been a database professional since the early 1980s. She is currently an independent consultant specializing in SQL and relational database issues and is the author of Practical SQL: The Sequel (Addison-Wesley, 2001). Sandra L. Emerson is an independent consultant and former Vice President of Publishing Programs for Sybase. Marcy Darnovsky, teaches at colleges throughout the San Francisco Bay area. She was formerly at Sybase.
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Content
Preface.
Introduction.
1.SQL and Relational Database Management.
2. Designing Datases.
3. Creating and Filling a Database.
4. Selecting Data from the Database.
5. Sorting Data and Other Selection Techniques.
6. Grouping Data and Reporting from it.
7. Joining Tables for Comprehensive Data Analysis.
8. Structuring Queries with Subqueries.
9. Creating and Using Views.
10. Security, Transactions, Performance, and Integrity.
11. Solving Business Problems.
Appendix A: Syntax Summary for the SQL Used in This Book.
Appendix B: Industry SQL Equivalents.
Appendix C: Glossary.
Appendix D: The 'bookbiz' Sample Database.
Introduction.
1.SQL and Relational Database Management.
2. Designing Datases.
3. Creating and Filling a Database.
4. Selecting Data from the Database.
5. Sorting Data and Other Selection Techniques.
6. Grouping Data and Reporting from it.
7. Joining Tables for Comprehensive Data Analysis.
8. Structuring Queries with Subqueries.
9. Creating and Using Views.
10. Security, Transactions, Performance, and Integrity.
11. Solving Business Problems.
Appendix A: Syntax Summary for the SQL Used in This Book.
Appendix B: Industry SQL Equivalents.
Appendix C: Glossary.
Appendix D: The 'bookbiz' Sample Database.