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SQL for Data Analytics

SQL for Data Analytics

By : Upom Malik, Matt Goldwasser, Benjamin Johnston
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SQL for Data Analytics

SQL for Data Analytics

3.5 (35)
By: Upom Malik, Matt Goldwasser, Benjamin Johnston

Overview of this book

Understanding and finding patterns in data has become one of the most important ways to improve business decisions. If you know the basics of SQL, but don't know how to use it to gain the most effective business insights from data, this book is for you. SQL for Data Analytics helps you build the skills to move beyond basic SQL and instead learn to spot patterns and explain the logic hidden in data. You'll discover how to explore and understand data by identifying trends and unlocking deeper insights. You'll also gain experience working with different types of data in SQL, including time-series, geospatial, and text data. Finally, you'll learn how to increase your productivity with the help of profiling and automation. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use SQL in everyday business scenarios efficiently and look at data with the critical eye of an analytics professional. Please note: if you are having difficulty loading the sample datasets, there are new instructions uploaded to the GitHub repository. The link to the GitHub repository can be found in the book's preface.
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9. Using SQL to Uncover the Truth – a Case Study

Database Scanning Methods

SQL-compliant databases provide a number of different methods for scanning, searching, and selecting data. The right scan method to use is very much dependent on the use case and the state of the database at the time of scanning. How many records are in the database? Which fields are we interested in? How many records do we expect to be returned? How often do we need to execute the query? These are just some of the questions that we may want to ask when selecting the most appropriate scanning method. Throughout this section, we will describe some of the search methods available, how they are used within SQL to execute scans, and a number of scenarios where they should/should not be used.

Query Planning

Before investigating the different methods of executing queries or scanning a database for information, it is useful to understand how the SQL server makes various decisions about the types of queries to be used. SQL-compliant databases possess a powerful...

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