Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming
Joe Celkos SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming offers tips and techniques in advanced programming. This book is the fourth edition and it consists of 39 chapters, starting with a comparison between databases and file systems. It covers transactions and currency control, schema level objects, locating data and schema numbers, base tables, and auxiliary tables. Furthermore, procedural, semi-procedural, and declarative programming are explored in this book. The book also presents the different normal forms in database normalization, including the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, elementary key, domain-key, and Boyce-Codd normal forms. It also offers practical hints for normalization and denormalization. The book discusses different data types, such as the numeric, temporal and character data types; the different predicates; and the simple and advanced SELECT statements. In addition, the book presents virtual tables, and it discusses data partitions in queries; grouping operations; simple aggregate functions; and descriptive statistics, matrices and graphs in SQL. The book concludes with a discussion about optimizing SQL. It will be of great value to SQL programmers. - Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee - Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment - Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges
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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming
Joe Celkos SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming offers tips and techniques in advanced programming. This book is the fourth edition and it consists of 39 chapters, starting with a comparison between databases and file systems. It covers transactions and currency control, schema level objects, locating data and schema numbers, base tables, and auxiliary tables. Furthermore, procedural, semi-procedural, and declarative programming are explored in this book. The book also presents the different normal forms in database normalization, including the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, elementary key, domain-key, and Boyce-Codd normal forms. It also offers practical hints for normalization and denormalization. The book discusses different data types, such as the numeric, temporal and character data types; the different predicates; and the simple and advanced SELECT statements. In addition, the book presents virtual tables, and it discusses data partitions in queries; grouping operations; simple aggregate functions; and descriptive statistics, matrices and graphs in SQL. The book concludes with a discussion about optimizing SQL. It will be of great value to SQL programmers. - Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee - Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment - Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges
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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming

Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming

by Joe Celko
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming

Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming

by Joe Celko

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Joe Celkos SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming offers tips and techniques in advanced programming. This book is the fourth edition and it consists of 39 chapters, starting with a comparison between databases and file systems. It covers transactions and currency control, schema level objects, locating data and schema numbers, base tables, and auxiliary tables. Furthermore, procedural, semi-procedural, and declarative programming are explored in this book. The book also presents the different normal forms in database normalization, including the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, elementary key, domain-key, and Boyce-Codd normal forms. It also offers practical hints for normalization and denormalization. The book discusses different data types, such as the numeric, temporal and character data types; the different predicates; and the simple and advanced SELECT statements. In addition, the book presents virtual tables, and it discusses data partitions in queries; grouping operations; simple aggregate functions; and descriptive statistics, matrices and graphs in SQL. The book concludes with a discussion about optimizing SQL. It will be of great value to SQL programmers. - Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee - Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment - Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780123820235
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Publication date: 11/22/2010
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 816
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Joe Celko served 10 years on ANSI/ISO SQL Standards Committee and contributed to the SQL-89 and SQL-92 Standards.

Mr. Celko is author a series of books on SQL and RDBMS for Elsevier/MKP. He is an independent consultant based in Austin, Texas.

He has written over 1200 columns in the computer trade and academic press, mostly dealing with data and databases.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Databases versus File Systems Chapter 2: Transactions and Concurrency Control Chapter 3: Schema Level Objects Chapter 4: Locating Data and Special Numbers Chapter 5: Base Tables and Related Elements Chapter 6: Procedural, Semi-Procedural and Declarative Programming Chapter 7: Procedural Constructs Chapter 8: Auxiliary Tables Chapter 9: Normalization Chapter 10: Numeric Data Types Chapter 11: Temporal Data Types Chapter 12: Character Data Types Chapter 13: NULLs -- Missing Data in SQL Chapter 14: Multiple Column Data Elements Chapter 15: Table Operations Chapter 16: Comparison or Theta Operators Chapter 17: Valued Predicates Chapter 18: CASE Expressions Chapter 19: LIKE and SIMILAR TO Predicates Chapter 20: BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates Chapter 21: The [NOT] IN() Predicate Chapter 22: EXISTS() Predicate Chapter 23: Quantified Subquery Predicates Chapter 24: The Simple SELECT Statement Chapter 25: Advanced SELECT Statements Chapter 26: Virtual Tables: VIEWs, Derived Tables, CTEs and MQTs Chapter 27: Partitioning Data in Queries Chapter 28: Grouping Operations Chapter 29: Simple Aggregate Functions Chapter 30: Advanced Grouping, Windowed Aggregation and OLAP in SQL Chapter 31: Descriptive Statistics in SQL Chapter 32: Sub-Sequences, Regions, Runs, Gaps, and Islands Chapter 33: Matrices in SQL Chapter 34: Set Operations Chapter 35: Subsets Chapter 36: Trees and Hierarchies in SQL Chapter 37: Graphs in SQL Chapter 38: Temporal Queries Chapter 39: Optimizing SQL

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Bestselling author and SQL guru Joe Celko ensures programming success through his new and expanded edition of SQL for Smarties which is packed with tips, tricks and other indispensable information for any and all SQL database practitioners and programmers who need to know how to get their job done.

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