THE BEST SQL BOOK FOR BEGINNERS - HANDS DOWN!

*INCLUDES FREE ACCESS TO A SAMPLE DATABASE, SQL BROWSER APP, COMPREHENSION QUIZES & SEVERAL OTHER DIGITAL RESOURCES!*

Not sure how to prepare for the data-driven future?

This book shows you EXACTLY what you need to know to successfully use the SQL programming language to enhance your career!

Are you a developer who wants to expand your mastery to database management?

Then you NEED this book. Buy now and start reading today!

Are you a project manager who needs to better understand your development team's needs? A decision maker who needs to make deeper data-driven analysis?

Everything you need to know is included in these pages!

The ubiquity of big data means that now more than ever there is a burning need to warehouse, access, and understand the contents of massive databases quickly and efficiently.

That's where SQL comes in.

SQL is the workhorse programming language that forms the backbone of modern data management and interpretation.

Any database management professional will tell you that despite trendy data management languages that come and go, SQL remains the most widely used and most reliable to date, with no signs of stopping. In this comprehensive guide, experienced mentor and SQL expert Walter Shields draws on his considerable knowledge to make the topic of relational database management accessible, easy to understand, and highly actionable.

SQL QuickStart Guide is ideal for those seeking to increase their job prospects and enhance their careers, for developers looking to expand their programming capabilities, or for anyone who wants to take advantage of our inevitably data-driven future-even with no prior coding experience!

SQL QuickStart Guide is Perfect For:

• Professionals looking to augment their job skills in preparation for a data-driven future
• Job seekers who want to pad their skills and resume for a durable employability edge
• Beginners with zero prior experience
• Managers, decision makers, and business owners looking to manage data-driven business insights
• Developers looking to expand their mastery beyond the full stack
• Anyone who wants to be better prepared for our data-driven future!

In SQL QuickStart Guide You'll Discover:

• The basic structure of databases-what they are, how they work, and how to successfully navigate them
• How to use SQL to retrieve and understand data no matter the scale of a database (aided by numerous images and examples)
• The most important SQL queries, along with how and when to use them for best effect
• Professional applications of SQL and how to sell your new SQL skills to your employer, along with other career-enhancing considerations

*LIFETIME ACCESS TO FREE SQL RESOURCES*

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The most thorough SQL reference, now updated for SQL:2023

SQL All-in-One For Dummies has everything you need to get started with the SQL programming language, and then to level up your skill with advanced applications. This relational database coding language is one of the most used languages in professional software development. And, as it becomes ever more important to take control of data, there's no end in sight to the need for SQL know-how. You can take your career to the next level with this guide to creating databases, accessing and editing data, protecting data from corruption, and integrating SQL with other languages in a programming environment. Become a SQL guru and turn the page on the next chapter of your coding career.

• Get 7 mini-books in one, covering basic SQL, database development, and advanced SQL concepts
• Read clear explanations of SQL code and learn to write complex queries
• Discover how to apply SQL in real-world situations to gain control over large datasets
• Enjoy a thorough reference to common tasks and issues in SQL development

This Dummies All-in-One guide is for all SQL users--from beginners to more experienced programmers. Find the info and the examples you need to reach the next stage in your SQL journey.

Analyze data like a pro, even if you're a beginner.

Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. Anthony DeBarros, a journalist and data analyst, focuses on using SQL to find the story within your data. The examples and code use the open-source database PostgreSQL and its companion pgAdmin interface, and the concepts you learn will apply to most database management systems, including MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, and others.*

You'll first cover the fundamentals of databases and the SQL language, then build skills by analyzing data from real-world datasets such as US Census demographics, New York City taxi rides, and earthquakes from US Geological Survey. Each chapter includes exercises and examples that teach even those who have never programmed before all the tools necessary to build powerful databases and access information quickly and efficiently.

You'll learn how to:

Create databases and related tables using your own data

Aggregate, sort, and filter data to find patterns

Use functions for basic math and advanced statistical operations

Identify errors in data and clean them up

Analyze spatial data with a geographic information system (PostGIS)

Create advanced queries and automate tasks

This updated second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest in SQL features, including additional advanced query techniques for wrangling data. This edition also has two new chapters: an expanded set of instructions on for setting up your system plus a chapter on using PostgreSQL with the popular JSON data interchange format.

Learning SQL doesn't have to be dry and complicated. Practical SQL delivers clear examples with an easy-to-follow approach to teach you the tools you need to build and manage your own databases.

* Microsoft SQL Server employs a variant of the language called T-SQL, which is not covered by Practical SQL.

The latest edition of Murach's classic SQL Server book does a better job than ever of teaching the SQL statements that every database developer should know. Each chapter features clear examples, easy-to-understand explanations, best practices, and helpful tips.

To start, this book presents the SQL statements for retrieving and updating the data in a database. These are the SQL statements that you'll use every day. Then, it shows how to design a database, how to implement that design, and how to work with database features like views, scripts, stored procedures, functions, triggers, transactions, and security. Finally, it shows how to work with an Azure SQL database that runs in the cloud as a service that's available from the Azure cloud computing platform.

The result? You'll be able to write SQL that's thoroughly professional, and you'll be able to work far more effectively than most of your colleagues.

Every Murach book guarantees high quality. The realistic examples show how each feature works in context. The exercises at the end of each chapter let you gain valuable hands-on experience. And the distinctive paired-pages format is ideal for learning and reference.

THE BEST SQL BOOK FOR BEGINNERS - HANDS DOWN!

*INCLUDES FREE ACCESS TO A SAMPLE DATABASE, SQL BROWSER APP, COMPREHENSION QUIZES & SEVERAL OTHER DIGITAL RESOURCES!*

Not sure how to prepare for the data-driven future?

This book shows you EXACTLY what you need to know to successfully use the SQL programming language to enhance your career!

Are you a developer who wants to expand your mastery to database management?

Then you NEED this book. Buy now and start reading today!

Are you a project manager who needs to better understand your development team's needs? A decision maker who needs to make deeper data-driven analysis?

Everything you need to know is included in these pages!

The ubiquity of big data means that now more than ever there is a burning need to warehouse, access, and understand the contents of massive databases quickly and efficiently.

That's where SQL comes in.

SQL is the workhorse programming language that forms the backbone of modern data management and interpretation.

Any database management professional will tell you that despite trendy data management languages that come and go, SQL remains the most widely used and most reliable to date, with no signs of stopping. In this comprehensive guide, experienced mentor and SQL expert Walter Shields draws on his considerable knowledge to make the topic of relational database management accessible, easy to understand, and highly actionable.

SQL QuickStart Guide is ideal for those seeking to increase their job prospects and enhance their careers, for developers looking to expand their programming capabilities, or for anyone who wants to take advantage of our inevitably data-driven future-even with no prior coding experience!

SQL QuickStart Guide is Perfect For:

• Professionals looking to augment their job skills in preparation for a data-driven future
• Job seekers who want to pad their skills and resume for a durable employability edge
• Beginners with zero prior experience
• Managers, decision makers, and business owners looking to manage data-driven business insights
• Developers looking to expand their mastery beyond the full stack
• Anyone who wants to be better prepared for our data-driven future!

In SQL QuickStart Guide You'll Discover:

• The basic structure of databases-what they are, how they work, and how to successfully navigate them
• How to use SQL to retrieve and understand data no matter the scale of a database (aided by numerous images and examples)
• The most important SQL queries, along with how and when to use them for best effect
• Professional applications of SQL and how to sell your new SQL skills to your employer, along with other career-enhancing considerations

*LIFETIME ACCESS TO FREE SQL RESOURCES*:

Each book comes with free lifetime access to tons of exclusive online resources to help you master SQL, such as workbooks, cheat sheets and reference guides.

*GIVING BACK: *

ClydeBank Media proudly supports the non-profit AdoptAClassroom whose mission is to advance equity in K-12 education by supplementing dwindling school funding for vital classroom materials and resources.*

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The #1 Easy, Common-Sense Guide to SQL Queries--Updated with More Advanced Techniques and Solutions

Foreword by Keith W. Hare, Vice Chair, USA SQL Standards Committee

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective queries with the latest SQL standards and database applications. Now, author John L. Viescas has updated this hands-on classic with even more advanced and valuable techniques.

Step by step, Viescas guides you through creating reliable queries for virtually any current SQL-based database. He demystifies all aspects of SQL query writing, from simple data selection and filtering to joining multiple tables and modifying sets of data.

Building on the basics, Viescas shows how to solve challenging real-world problems, including applying multiple complex conditions on one table, performing sophisticated logical evaluations, and using unlinked tables to think outside the box.

In two brand-new chapters, you learn how to perform complex calculations on groups for sophisticated reporting, and how to partition data into windows for more flexible aggregation.

Practice all you want with downloadable sample databases for today's versions of Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft SQL Server, and the open source MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Whether you're a DBA, developer, user, or student, there's no better way to master SQL.

Coverage includes:

• Getting started: understanding what relational databases are, and ensuring that your database structures are sound
• SQL basics: using SELECT statements, creating expressions, sorting information with ORDER BY, and filtering data using WHERE
• Summarizing and grouping data with GROUP BY and HAVING clauses
• Drawing data from multiple tables: using INNER JOIN, OUTER JOIN, and UNION operators, and working with subqueries
• Modifying data sets with UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE statements
• Advanced queries: complex NOT and AND, conditions, if-then-else using CASE, unlinked tables, driver tables, and more
• NEW! Using advanced GROUP BY keywords to create subtotals, roll-ups, and more
• NEW! Applying window functions to answer more sophisticated questions, and gain deeper insight into your data

Software-Independent Approach!
If you work with database software such as Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Ingres, or any other SQL-based program, this book could save you hours of time and aggravation--before you write a single query!

You may know SQL basics, but are you taking advantage of its expressive power? This second edition applies a highly practical approach to Structured Query Language (SQL) so you can create and manipulate large stores of data. Based on real-world examples, this updated cookbook provides a framework to help you construct solutions and executable examples in several flavors of SQL, including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

SQL programmers, analysts, data scientists, database administrators, and even relatively casual SQL users will find SQL Cookbook to be a valuable problem-solving guide for everyday issues. No other resource offers recipes in this unique format to help you tackle nagging day-to-day conundrums with SQL.

The second edition includes:

• Fully revised recipes that recognize the greater adoption of window functions in SQL implementations
• Additional recipes that reflect the widespread adoption of common table expressions (CTEs) for more readable, easier-to-implement solutions
• New recipes to make SQL more useful for people who aren't database experts, including data scientists
• Expanded solutions for working with numbers and strings
• Up-to-date SQL recipes throughout the book to guide you through the basics

Whether you're an application developer, database administrator, web application designer, mobile app developer, or Microsoft Office users, a good working knowledge of SQL is an important part of interacting with databases. And Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes offers the straightforward, practical answers you need to help you do your job.

Expert trainer and popular author Ben Forta teaches you just the parts of SQL you need to know-starting with simple data retrieval and quickly going on to more complex topics including the use of joins, subqueries, stored procedures, cursors, triggers, and table constraints.

You'll learn methodically, systematically, and simply-in short, quick lessons that will each take only 10 minutes or less to complete.

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.

You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions, subqueries, and regular expressions in new, innovative ways--as well as how to combine SQL techniques to accomplish your goals faster, with understandable code. If you work with SQL databases, this is a must-have reference.

• Learn the key steps for preparing your data for analysis
• Perform time series analysis using SQL's date and time manipulations
• Use cohort analysis to investigate how groups change over time
• Use SQL's powerful functions and operators for text analysis
• Detect outliers in your data and replace them with alternate values
• Establish causality using experiment analysis, also known as A/B testing

Use SQL to get the data you need in no time at all! Learn to read and write basic queries, troubleshoot common problems, and control your own business data in just 24 short lessons-no programming experience required!

SQL has been designed to be as close to English as possible--anyone can learn it! Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches helps you add this lucrative and highly sought-after skill to your resume in just 24 fun and friendly lessons. The book emphasizes practical uses for the language in the real-world, so you'll just learn the most useful skills for business data analysis.

Inside Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches you'll discover how to:

- Set up your first database with MySQL
- Write your own SQL queries
- See only the data you need from large datasets
- Connect different sets of data
- Analyze data with functions and aggregations
- Master basic data manipulation techniques
- Save queries in stored procedures and views
- Create tables to store data efficiently
- Read and improve SQL written by others

If you use Excel, Tableau, or PowerBI to crunch business data, you've probably seen a lot of SQL already. And guess what? It's easy to master the most useful parts of SQL! In just a few quick lessons, Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches will get you writing your own queries, modifying existing SQL statements, and working with data like a pro. 25-year SQL veteran Jeff Iannucci makes SQL a snap through hands-on lab exercises, relevant code examples, and easy-to-understand language.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

SQL, Structured Query Language, is the standard way to query, create, and manage relational databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. It's also a superpower for data analysts who need to go beyond spreadsheets and BI dashboarding tools. SQL is easy to read and understand, and with this book (and a little practice) you'll be pulling data, tweaking tables, and cranking out amazing reports and presentations in no time at all!

About the book

Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches introduces SQL to data analysts and other aspiring data pros with no prior experience using relational databases. In it, you'll complete 24 short lessons, each of which teaches an essential SQL skill for retrieving, filtering, and analyzing data. You'll practice each new technique with a friendly hands-on lab designed to take about 15 minutes, as you learn to write queries that deliver the exact data you need. Along the way, you'll build a valuable intuition for how databases operate in real business scenarios.

What's inside

- Get the data you need from any relational database
- Filter, sort, and group data
- Combine data from multiple tables
- Create, update, and delete data

About the reader

For students, aspiring data analysts, software developers, and anyone else who wants to work with relational databases.

About the author

Jeff Iannucci is a Senior Consultant with Straight Path Solutions. For over 20 years, he has worked extensively with SQL in sectors such as healthcare, finance, retail sales, and government.

Table of Contents

1 Before you begin
2 Your first SQL query
3 Querying data
4 Sorting, skipping, and commenting data
5 Filtering on specific values
6 Filtering with multiple values, ranges, and exclusions
7 Filtering with wildcards and null values
8 Querying multiple tables
9 Using different kinds of joins
10 Combining queries with set operators
11 Using subqueries and logical operators
12 Grouping data
13 Using variables
14 Querying with functions
15 Combining or calculating values with functions
16 Inserting data
17 Updating and deleting data
18 Storing data in tables
19 Creating constraints and indexes
20 Reusing queries with views and stored procedures
21 Making decisions in queries
22 Using cursors
23 Using someone else's script
24 Never the end

If you're developing applications that access Oracle databases, you can save time and effort by having the database do more work for you. That's where this book comes in.

This book teaches you how to write SQL statements to efficiently retrieve and update the data in an Oracle database. It teaches you how to design and create a database because that provides insight into performance and security issues. It teaches you how to use Oracle's procedural language (PL/SQL) to take advantage of powerful features like transactions, stored procedures, functions, and triggers. And it teaches you how to host an Oracle database in the cloud and use SQL Developer to run SQL statements against that database.

The result? You'll learn how to write the kind of SQL and PL/SQL that makes you a more effective and valuable developer or analyst.

If you use SQL in your day-to-day work as a data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer, this popular pocket guide is your ideal on-the-job reference. You'll find many examples that address the language's complexities, along with key aspects of SQL used in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

In this updated edition, author Alice Zhao describes how these database management systems implement SQL syntax for both querying and making changes to a database. You'll find details on data types and conversions, regular expression syntax, window functions, pivoting and unpivoting, and more.

• Quickly look up how to perform specific tasks using SQL
• Apply the book's syntax examples to your own queries
• Update SQL queries to work in five different database management systems
• NEW: Connect Python and R to a relational database
• NEW: Look up frequently asked SQL questions in the How Do I? chapter

If a query is performing poorly, and you can't understand why, then that query's execution plan will tell you not only what data set is coming back, but also what SQL Server did, and in what order, to get that data. It will reveal how the data was retrieved, and from which tables and indexes, what types of joins were used, at what point filtering, sorting and aggregation occurred, and a whole lot more. These details will often highlight the likely source of any problem.

I wrote this book with the singular goal of teaching you how to read SQL Server Execution plans

It will explain, among many other things, the following:

• How to capture execution plans using manual and automatic methods
• A documented method for reading and interpreting execution plans
• How common SQL Server objects, such as indexes, views, stored procedures, and so on, appear in execution plans
• How to control execution plans with hints and plan guides, and why this is a double-edged sword
• How the Query Store works with, and collects data on, execution plans
  

With this knowledge, you'll have everything you need to read the execution plan, for any query of your own, regardless of complexity, and understand what it does and what is causing the bad performance. It is still your job to work out how best to fix it, but your new understanding of execution plans will give a much better chance of success

This book is primarily intended for a training/educational environment in a College, University, or technical school. The goal is to start from point zero in Access 2016 SQL and arrive at the level of a skilled professional. To that purpose it contains 319 exercises in 31 chapters which the student can complete during class time. It also contains ten questions after each chapter which the instructor can use for in class discussions or test generation. There are 320 case questions in total in the book. Finally, it contains sixty case studies, two at the end of each chapter, for additional work as homework or for sharpening the skills learned through each chapter.The book is the result of the author's twenty-one years of teaching at the University level and twenty-five years of practice on databases. After hundreds of labs and thousands of questions and comments from the students, Pindaro wrote this book to assist the students in becoming SQL experts. Currently, no matter the position, industry, or job function, it looks like everyone is asking for SQL skills.For the instructor, Pindaro tried to make this book as friendly as possible. First, he personally tested the book in class to see how the labs work in the real training environment. Second, he has provided a multitude of case studies and questions on real business scenarios so that the students can appreciate the power of SQL for work and business. Third, he has prepared a separate booklet the instructor can receive as a word or pdf file (upon confirmation of instructor status) that includes the solutions to the case studies and provides hints for the code proposed. The goal is to learn how to use databases for real business tasks. The author has worked on hundreds of business databases and operational systems for the last twenty-five years. Pindaro's exciting relationship with databases started with DBase III back in 1991, continuing with all versions of Access since early 1993, and working with MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and IBM DB2 for a number of years. He is still in love with all of them. After more than twenty-five years, he still works with data, business analytics, data integration, and visualization.

All the mistakes you might make with SQL Server--and how to avoid them!

100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them prepares you for the pitfalls database professionals often encounter--from administration to development, availability, and security. You'll learn to sidestep common errors that slow down your T-SQL code and ensure your SQL Server is installed and configured to handle anything your organization throws at it.

Inside 100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them you'll learn to avoid:

- Development errors when writing T-SQL
- Installation and administration mistakes
- Optimization missteps
- Common pitfalls relating to high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)
- Security oversights that can endanger your data

100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them doesn't focus on the happy path--instead, it covers all the errors and problems you might face as a SQL Server developer or administrator. Each chapter is filled with real-world issues drawn from author Peter A. Carter's two-decade-long career in SQL Server. Peter's seasoned advice helps dispel myths, debunk misconceptions, and set you on the right road.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Perfecting a SQL Server system can be a complex balancing act. Why is T-SQL running so slowly? Are the right data available? Are we protected against data theft? What about that new server instance I need to administer? Even the most skilled SQL Server experts make mistakes that cost time and performance. This book can help you get it right the first time.

About the book

100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them focuses exclusively on the errors that you might--and probably will--make as a SQL Server admin or developer. Real-world examples, code samples, and helpful diagrams make it easy to understand each issue and its solution. You'll learn how to write performant code, design efficient database schemas, implement error handling, work with complex data types, and much more, all in a friendly, common-sense problem/solution format.

What's inside

- T-SQL development
- Installation, administration, and optimization
- High availability and security

About the reader

Readers need to understand basic SQL Server concepts and SQL queries. Perfect for junior database admins, full-stack developers, and accidental DBAs.

About the author

Peter A. Carter is a SQL Server expert with experience developing, administering, and architecting data-tier applications and SQL Server platforms.

Table of Contents

1 Introducing SQL Server
2 Development standards
3 Data types
4 Database design
5 T-SQL development
6 SSIS development
7 Error handling, testing, source control, and deployment
8 SQL Server installation
9 Instance and database management
10 Optimization
11 Indexes
12 Backups
13 Availability
14 Security

If you're an application developer, or you're training to be one, this latest edition of Murach's classic SQL Server book is made for you.

To start, it presents the SQL statements that you need to retrieve and update the data in a database. These are the SQL statements that you'll use every day. Then, it shows you how to design a database, how to implement that design, and how to work with database features like views, scripts, stored procedures, functions, triggers, transactions, security, XML data, and BLOB data with FILESTREAM storage.

The result? You'll be able to create database applications that are thoroughly professional. You'll be familiar with the DBA-related issues that let you work far more effectively than most of your colleagues. And you'll have a handy reference at your side to answer questions and handle new challenges as they come up.

With the shift from data warehouses to data lakes, data now lands in repositories before it's been transformed, enabling engineers to model raw data into clean, well-defined datasets. dbt (data build tool) helps you take data further. This practical book shows data analysts, data engineers, BI developers, and data scientists how to create a true self-service transformation platform through the use of dynamic SQL.

Authors Rui Machado from Monstarlab and Hélder Russa from Jumia show you how to quickly deliver new data products by focusing more on value delivery and less on architectural and engineering aspects. If you know your business well and have the technical skills to model raw data into clean, well-defined datasets, you'll learn how to design and deliver data models without any technical influence.

With this book, you'll learn:

• What dbt is and how a dbt project is structured
• How dbt fits into the data engineering and analytics worlds
• How to collaborate on building data models
• The main tools and architectures for building useful, functional data models
• How to fit dbt into data warehousing and laking architecture
• How to build tests for data transformations

Geared to intermediate- to advanced-level DBAs and IT professionals looking to enhance their MySQL skills, this guide provides a comprehensive overview on how to manage and optimize MySQL databases. You'll learn how to create databases and implement backup and recovery, security configurations, high availability, scaling techniques, and performance tuning.

Using practical techniques, tips, and real-world examples, authors Arunjith Aravindan and Jeyaram Ayyalusamy show you how to deploy and manage MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Azure MySQL. By the end of the book, you'll have the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, manage, and optimize MySQL databases effectively.

• Design and implement a scalable and reliable database infrastructure using MySQL 8 on premises and cloud
• Install and configure software, manage user accounts, and optimize database performance
• Use backup and recovery strategies, security measures, and high availability solutions
• Apply best practices for database schema design, indexing strategies, and replication techniques
• Implement advanced database features and techniques such as replication, clustering, load balancing, and high availability
• Troubleshoot common issues and errors, using diagnostic tools and techniques to identify and resolve problems quickly and efficiently
• Facilitate major MySQL upgrades including MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8

SQL (Structured Query Language) is THE standard language used world-wide for database communication on all popular database software. It allows the storage and manipulation of data both on Windows platforms and on Unix-based platforms, such as Linux.

SQL in easy steps, 4th edition begins by explaining how to download and install the free MySQL database server on both Windows and Linux platforms. This allows you to establish an environment in which to develop and administer your own databases. This book makes no assumption that you will have previous knowledge of any programming or scripting language so it's ideal for the newcomer to SQL. Each chapter builds your knowledge of executing database queries. The book contains exciting chapters on how to selectively extract data from within one, or more, databases and there are complete examples that illustrate each aspect of SQL. By the end of this book you will have gained a sound understanding of the Structured Query Language and be able to write your own SQL scripts to insert, extract, and manipulate data.

SQL in easy steps, 4th edition has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone who wants to begin using databases. It is suitable for those with little or no experience of SQL. This book will appeal to all who need a fundamental understanding of database administration with SQL:

Web developers wanting to add database interaction to their web sites

Programmers wanting to add SQL to their skills set

Hobbyists who want to begin creating SQL scripts for upload to their own ISP

Students or those seeking a career in computing.

Free, downloadable source code is available from our website so you can check the code against your own work, and get started straight away!