Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours
Plew, Ron D., Stephens, Ryan, Jones, Arie
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education, Limited, 2008
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- Title
- Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours
- Author
- Plew, Ron D., Stephens, Ryan, Jones, Arie
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Limited
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0672330180
- ISBN 13
- 9780672330186
- Edition
- 2 Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.733 pounds
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- Series
- Book 15 of 158: Sams Teach Yourself
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will learn professional techniques to design and build efficient databases and query them to extract useful information. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of ANSI SQL from the ground up.
Example code demonstrates the authors’ professional techniques, while exercises written for MySQL offer the reader hands-on learning with an open-source database. Included are advanced techniques for using views, managing transactions, database administration, and extending SQL.
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common SQL tasks.
Q&As, Quizzes, and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
Notes and Tips point out shortcuts and solutions.
New terms are clearly defined and explained.
Learn how to…
- Use SQL-2003, the latest standard for the Structured Query Language
- Design and deploy efficient, secure databases
- Build advanced queries for information retrieval
- Sort, group, and summarize information for best presentation
- Tune databases and queries for maximum performance
- Understand database administration and security techniques
For more than ten years the authors have studied, applied, and documented the SQL standard and its application to critical database systems.
Ryan Stephens and Ron Plew are entrepreneurs, speakers, and cofounders of Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a fast-growing IT management and consulting firm which specializes in database technologies. They taught database courses for Indiana University–Purdue University in Indianapolis for five years and have authored more than a dozen books on Oracle, SQL, database design, and the high availability of critical systems.
Arie D. Jones is Senior SQL Server database administrator and analyst for PTI. He is a regular speaker at technical events and has authored several books and articles.
Category: Database
Covers: ANSI SQL
User Level: Beginning–Intermediate
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For more than 10 years, the authors have studied, applied, and documented the SQL standard and its application to critical database systems in this book. Ryan Stephens and Ron Plew are entrepreneurs, speakers, and cofounders of Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a fast-growing IT management and consulting firm. PTI specializes in database technologies, primarily Oracle and SQL servers running on all Unix, Linux, and Microsoft platforms. Starting out as data analysts and database administrators, Ryan and Ron now lead a team of impressive technical subject matter experts who manage databases for clients worldwide. They authored and taught database courses for Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis for five years and have authored more than a dozen books on Oracle, SQL, database design, and high availability of critical systems.
Arie D. Jones is Senior SQL Server database administrator and analyst for Perpetual Technologies, Inc. (PTI) in Indianapolis, Indiana. Arie leads PTI’s team of experts in planning, design, development, deployment, and management of database environments and applications to achieve the best combination of tools and services for each client. He is a regular speaker at technical events and has authored several books and articles pertaining to database-related topics. The most recent is SQL Functions Programmer’s Reference from Wrox Publishing.
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