SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself, Paperback

Description

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results.

By working through the book's 22 lessons of 10 minutes or less, you'll learn what you need to know to take advantage of the SQL language.

Lessons cover IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Express, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle and Oracle express, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Full-color code examples help you understand how SQL statements are structured
Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls
Notes explain additional concepts, and provide additional information

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to...

• Use the major SQL statements
• Construct complex SQL statements using multiple clauses and
• operators
• Retrieve, sort, and format database contents
• Pinpoint the data you need using a variety of filtering techniques
• Use aggregate functions to summarize data
• Join two or more related tables
• Insert, update, and delete data
• Create and alter database tables
• Work with views, stored procedures, and more
  

About the Author

Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Director of Education Initiatives and has three decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and product marketing. He is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (including spinoff titles on MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server T-SQL, and Oracle PL/SQL), Learning Regular Expressions, as well as books on Java, Windows, and more. He has extensive experience in database design and development, has implemented databases for several highly successful commercial software programs and websites, and is a frequent lecturer and columnist on application development and Internet technologies. Ben lives in Oak Park, Michigan, with his wife, Marcy, and their children. He welcomes your email at ben@forta.com and invites you to visit his website at http: //forta.com.