Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005

The simpler way to learn to query SQL Server

Sikha Saha Bagui, Richard Walsh Earp

342 pages, parution le 12/05/2006

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Résumé

Anyone who interacts with today's modern databases needs to know SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving database information. In recent years, the dramatic rise in the popularity of relational databases and multi-user databases has fueled a healthy demand for application developers and others who can write SQL code efficiently and correctly.

If you're new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 is an ideal step-by-step introduction to this database query tool, with everything you need for programming SQL using Microsoft's SQL Server 2005-one of the most powerful and popular database engines used today. Plenty of books explain database theory. This guide lets you apply the theory as you learn SQL. You don't need prior database knowledge, or even prior computer knowledge.

Based on a popular university-level course designed by authors Sikha Saha Bagui and Richard Walsh Earp, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 starts with very simple SQL concepts, and slowly builds into more complex query development. Every topic, concept, and idea comes with examples of code and output, along with exercises to help you gain proficiency in SQL and SQL Server 2005. With this book, you'll learn:

Beginning SQL commands, such as how and where to type an SQL query, and how to create, populate, alter and delete tables
How to customize SQL Server 2005's settings and about SQL Server 2005's functions
About joins, a common database mechanism for combining tables
Query development, the use of views and other derived structures, and simple set operations
Subqueries, aggregate functions and correlated subqueries, as well as indexes and constraints that can be added to tables in SQL Server 2005

Whether you're an undergraduate computer science or MIS student, a self-learner who has access to the new Microsoft database, or work for your company's IT department, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 will get you up to speed on SQL in no time.

Sommaire

Starting Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Beginning SQL commands in SQL Server
Creating, populating, altering, and deleting tables
Joins
Functions
Query development and derived structures
Set operations
Joins versus subqueries
Aggregation and GROUP BY
Correlated subqueries
Indexes and constraints on tables

A. The student database and other tables used in this book
B. Script used to create the Student_course database

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Sikha Saha Bagui, Richard Walsh Earp
Parution	12/05/2006
Nb. de pages	342
Format	18 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	590g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596102159
ISBN13	978-0-596-10215-9