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Learn SQL Database Programming

By : Josephine Bush
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Book Image

Learn SQL Database Programming

5 (1)
By: Josephine Bush

Overview of this book

SQL is a powerful querying language that's used to store, manipulate, and retrieve data, and it is one of the most popular languages used by developers to query and analyze data efficiently. If you're looking for a comprehensive introduction to SQL, Learn SQL Database Programming will help you to get up to speed with using SQL to streamline your work in no time. Starting with an overview of relational database management systems, this book will show you how to set up and use MySQL Workbench and design a database using practical examples. You'll also discover how to query and manipulate data with SQL programming using MySQL Workbench. As you advance, you’ll create a database, query single and multiple tables, and modify data using SQL querying. This SQL book covers advanced SQL techniques, including aggregate functions, flow control statements, error handling, and subqueries, and helps you process your data to present your findings. Finally, you’ll implement best practices for writing SQL and designing indexes and tables. By the end of this SQL programming book, you’ll have gained the confidence to use SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate data.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Database Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Basic SQL Querying
11
Section 3: Advanced SQL Querying
16
Section 4: Presenting Your Findings
19
Section 5: SQL Best Practices

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create programmable objects, including how to create and use views, which included selecting data from views and inserting, updating, and deleting data using views. Additionally, you learned how to alter and drop views. You learned how to create and use variables, which included how to declare and assign values to variables. This also included how to use variables in a query.

Then, you learned how to create and use stored procedures, including how to alter and drop stored procedures. This included learning how to use variables and parameters in stored procedures, as well as how to control flow in stored procedures using IF, CASE, LOOP, REPEAT, and WHILE. Finally, you learned how to handle errors in stored procedures.

After that, you learned how to create and use functions, including how to alter and drop functions. You learned how to...