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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

Types of RDMS

An RDMS is a database that stores data in tables using rows and columns. The values in the tables are related to one other, and the tables may also be related to one another, hence the term relational. This relationship makes it possible to access data across multiple tables with a single query.

In this section, we will review the top four relational database management systems. The top four are Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

According to the DB-Engines Ranking, here are the scores for the top RDMSes at the time of writing this book:

The preceding screenshot can be found at https://db-engines.com/en/ranking.

Oracle

Oracle was first released in 1979. Oracle was the first commercially available SQL...