SQL Pocket Guide
A Guide to SQL Usage
4th Edition
Published on 30. September 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-4920-9040-3 (ISBN)
Description
If you use SQL in your day-to-day work as a data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer, this popular pocket guide is your ideal on-the-job reference. You'll find many examples that address the language's complexities, along with key aspects of SQL used in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
In this updated edition, author Alice Zhao describes how these database management systems implement SQL syntax for both querying and making changes to a database. You'll find details on data types and conversions, regular expression syntax, window functions, pivoting and unpivoting, and more.
Quickly look up how to perform specific tasks using SQL
Apply the book's syntax examples to your own queries
Update SQL queries to work in five different database management systems
NEW: Connect Python and R to a relational database
NEW: Look up frequently asked SQL questions in the "How Do I?" chapter
In this updated edition, author Alice Zhao describes how these database management systems implement SQL syntax for both querying and making changes to a database. You'll find details on data types and conversions, regular expression syntax, window functions, pivoting and unpivoting, and more.
Quickly look up how to perform specific tasks using SQL
Apply the book's syntax examples to your own queries
Update SQL queries to work in five different database management systems
NEW: Connect Python and R to a relational database
NEW: Look up frequently asked SQL questions in the "How Do I?" chapter
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4920-9040-3 (9781492090403)
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Additional editions
Previous edition
Jonathan Gennick
SQL Pocket Guide
Book
12/2010
3rd Edition
O'Reilly
€12.00
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Person
Alice Zhao is a data scientist who is passionate about teaching and making complex things easy to understand. She has taught numerous courses in SQL, Python and R as a senior data scientist at Metis and as a co-founder of Best Fit Analytics. She writes about analytics and pop culture on her blog, A Dash of Data. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Thrillist and Working Mother. Alice has also spoken at a variety of data science conferences, including Strata in New York City and ODSC in San Francisco, on topics ranging from natural language processing to data visualization.