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Summary
Summary
Beginning Queries with SQL is a friendly and easily read guide to writing queries with the all-important -- in the database world -- SQL language. Anyone who does any work at all with databases needs to know something of SQL, and that is evidenced by the strong sales of such books as Learning SQL (O'Reilly) and SQL Queries for Mere Mortals (Pearson). Beginning Queries with SQL is written by the author of Beginning Database Design, an author who is garnering great reviews on Amazon due to the clarity and succinctness of her writing.
Author Notes
Clare Churcher is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Computing at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She holds a degree in physics with first class honors and completed a Ph.D in physics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has done postdoctoral research in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, England. Clare s research interests are in the management and visualization of data especially for scientific research. She has a background in database design, and has taught programming, analysis and design of information systems, and database management at undergraduate level, as well as software engineering and scientific visualization at post graduate level.
Table of Contents
| Relational Database Overview |
| Simple Queries on One Table |
| A First Look at Joins |
| Nested Queries |
| Self Joins |
| More Than One Relationship Between Tables |
| Set Operations |
| Aggregate Operations |
| Efficiency Considerations |
| How to Approach a Query |
| Common Problems |
| Appendix Sample Database |
| Index |
