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Getting Started with CockroachDB

By : Kishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna
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Getting Started with CockroachDB

By: Kishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna

Overview of this book

Getting Started with CockroachDB will introduce you to the inner workings of CockroachDB and help you to understand how it provides faster access to distributed data through a SQL interface. The book will also uncover how you can use the database to provide solutions where the data is highly available. Starting with CockroachDB's installation, setup, and configuration, this SQL book will familiarize you with the database architecture and database design principles. You'll then discover several options that CockroachDB provides to store multiple copies of your data to ensure fast data access. The book covers the internals of CockroachDB, how to deploy and manage it on the cloud, performance tuning to get the best out of CockroachDB, and how to scale data across continents and serve it locally. In addition to this, you'll get to grips with fault tolerance and auto-rebalancing, how indexes work, and the CockroachDB Admin UI. The book will guide you in building scalable cloud services on top of CockroachDB, covering administrative and security aspects and tips for troubleshooting, performance enhancements, and a brief guideline on migrating from traditional databases. By the end of this book, you'll have gained sufficient knowledge to manage your data on CockroachDB and interact with it from your application layer.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Know CockroachDB
4
Section 2: Exploring the Important Features of CockroachDB
9
Section 3: Working with CockroachDB
Appendix: Bibliography and Additional Resources

DML

DML statements are used for managing data within schema objects. They consist of INSERT, UPDATE, UPSERT, and DELETE statements and are generally referred to as statements that insert, update, or delete the data in a database. We will go over the syntax of INSERT, UPDATE, UPSERT, and DELETE statements used for a table in this section.

The INSERT statement takes the following parameters:

  • common_table_expression: Common table expressions (CTEs) provide a shorthand for a subquery, to improve the readability.
  • table_name: Name of the table into which the data is inserted.
  • AS table_alias: Alias for the table name.
  • column_name: Name of the column that is being populated.
  • select_statement: A selection query, whose result is used to insert the data. The column order and column data types of the SELECT query result should match that of the table into which the data is getting inserted.

Here is an example of INSERT INTO:

INSERT INTO users(id, name...