Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008

by Dr. Sikha Bagui, Dr. Richard Earp

Overview

This book, written for readers who have little or no previous experience with databases, SQL, or SQL Server, provides a very systematic approach to learning SQL using SQL Server. Each chapter is written in a step-by-step manner and has examples that can be run using SQL Server. Using the sample tables and data provided, the reader of this book will be able to do all the examples to experience hands-on SQL programming in SQL Server. The book also presents a series of exercises at the end of the chapters to help readers gain proficiency with SQL. With this book you will learn beginning SQL commands - how to retrieve and manipulate data using the simple SELECT statement; how to customize SQL Server 2008's settings and about SQL Server 2008's functions; how to create, alter, populate and delete tables; about joins, a common database mechanism for combining tables; query development, the use of views and other derived structures; simple set operations; about aggregate functions; how to write subqueries and correlated subqueries; how to create and use indexes and constraints; transaction processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763781385
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	12/21/2009
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Sikha Saha Bagui is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida. She teaches a variety of computer science and database courses, and her research areas of concentration are database design, web databases, data mining, and statistical computing. Dr. Bagui has published many journal articles and co-authored several books with Dr. Earp including Practical Guide to using SQL in Oracle.

Dr. Richard Walsh Earp is a former chair of and former associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and former dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Dr. Earp was also an instructor with Learning Tree International and worked for Computer Sciences Corporation at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola as a database consultant after his retirement from academia. He has co-authored several books with Dr. Bagui.