Discovering SQL a hands-on guide for beginners
Teaching the SQL skills that businesses demand when hiring programmers If you're a SQL beginner, you don't just want to learn SQL basics, you also want to get some practical SQL skills you can use in the job market. This book gives you both. Covering the basics through intermediate topics...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis, Ind.
Wiley Publishing
2011
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| Series: | Wrox beginning guides
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Teaching the SQL skills that businesses demand when hiring programmers If you're a SQL beginner, you don't just want to learn SQL basics, you also want to get some practical SQL skills you can use in the job market. This book gives you both. Covering the basics through intermediate topics with clear explanations, hands-on exercises, and helpful solutions, this book is the perfect introduction to SQL. Topics include both the current SQL:2008 standards, the upcoming SQL:2011 standards, and also how to use SQL against current releases of the most popular commercial SQL databases, such as Oracle Structured Query Language, more popularly known as SQL, is a standard database language used to create, access and manipulate data, and store and maintain information in relational databases such as Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. If that's all you know about SQL, then you're already ahead of the curve! Assuming no prior knowledge of SQL or relational databases, author Alex Kriegel takes you on a voyage of discovery as you learn SQL basics and learn to work with data stored in a relational database. Written in a beginner-friendly tone, this guide walks you through the creation of a sample database that incorporates all the SQL concepts taught throughout the book and also introduces data modeling, query tuning, and optimization. Discovering SQL: covers the most important SQL dialects along with the current release of SQL Standard; highlights the differences between particular implementations as well as the power and limitations of SQL; demonstrates how SQL deals with all types of data: structured, unstructured and everything in between; looks at dynamic SQL, procedural extensions and latest developments in the field; shares best practices for optimizing query performance; walks you through the basics of database design and introduces the tools for working with normalized data |
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| Item Description: | "Wrox programmer to programmer"--Cover |
| Physical Description: | xxx, 400 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1118092775 1118092783 9781118092781 9781283397780 9781118092774 9781118092798 9786613397782 1283397781 1118092791 |