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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. This title offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges.
List 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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