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Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Advanced SQL Programming
- 4th Edition - October 18, 2010
- Author: Joe Celko
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 2 0 2 2 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 2 0 2 3 - 5
Joe Celkos SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming offers tips and techniques in advanced programming. This book is the fourth edition and it consists of 39 chapters, starting… Read more
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Request a sales quoteJoe Celkos SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming offers tips and techniques in advanced programming. This book is the fourth edition and it consists of 39 chapters, starting with a comparison between databases and file systems. It covers transactions and currency control, schema level objects, locating data and schema numbers, base tables, and auxiliary tables. Furthermore, procedural, semi-procedural, and declarative programming are explored in this book.
The book also presents the different normal forms in database normalization, including the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, elementary key, domain-key, and Boyce-Codd normal forms. It also offers practical hints for normalization and denormalization. The book discusses different data types, such as the numeric, temporal and character data types; the different predicates; and the simple and advanced SELECT statements. In addition, the book presents virtual tables, and it discusses data partitions in queries; grouping operations; simple aggregate functions; and descriptive statistics, matrices and graphs in SQL. The book concludes with a discussion about optimizing SQL. It will be of great value to SQL programmers.
- Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee
- Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment
- Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges
This book is intended for working SQL programmers, database administrators, database designers, database analysts, and application system developers as well as those who are developing new features for database management systems who want to know about user needs. This would include anyone working with electronic content in the relational database context but also XML. Web services, etc.
About the AuthorIntroduction to the Fourth EditionChapter 1 Databases versus File Systems 1.1 Tables as Entities 1.2 Tables as Relationships 1.3 Rows versus Records 1.4 Columns versus Fields 1.5 Schema Objects 1.6 CREATE SCHEMA StatementChapter 2 Transactions and Concurrency Control 2.1 Sessions 2.2 Transactions and ACID 2.3 Concurrency Control 2.4 Pessimistic Concurrency Control 2.5 SNAPSHOT Isolation and Optimistic Concurrency 2.6 Logical Concurrency Control 2.7 Deadlock and LivelocksChapter 3 Schema Level Objects 3.1 CREATE SCHEMA Statement 3.2 CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE FUNCTION, and CREATE TRIGGER 3.3 CREATE DOMAIN Statement 3.4 CREATE SEQUENCE 3.5 CREATE ASSERTION 3.6 Character Set Related ConstructsChapter 4 Locating Data and Special Numbers 4.1 Exposed Physical Locators 4.2 Generated Identifiers 4.3 Sequence Generator Functions 4.4 Preallocated Values 4.5 Special SeriesChapter 5 Base Tables and Related Elements 5.1 CREATE TABLE Statement 5.2 Nested UNIQUE Constraints 5.3 CREATE ASSERTION Constraints 5.4 TEMPORARY Tables 5.5 Manipulating Tables 5.6 Avoiding Attribute Splitting 5.7 Modeling Class Hierarchies in DDL 5.8 Exposed Physical Locators 5.9 Auto-Incrementing Columns 5.10 Generated Identifiers 5.11 A Remark on Duplicate Rows 5.12 Other Schema Objects 5.13 Temporary Tables 5.14 CREATE DOMAIN Statement 5.15 CREATE TRIGGER Statement 5.16 CREATE PROCEDURE Statement 5.17 DECLARE CURSOR StatementChapter 6 Procedural, Semiprocedural, and Declarative Programming 6.1 Basics of Software Engineering 6.2 Cohesion 6.3 Coupling 6.4 The Big Leap 6.5 Rewriting Tricks 6.6 Functions for Predicates 6.7 Procedural versus Logical DecompositionChapter 7 Procedural Constructs 7.1 CREATE PROCEDURE 7.2 CREATE TRIGGER 7.3 CURSORs 7.4 SEQUENCEs 7.5 Generated Columns 7.6 Table FunctionsChapter 8 Auxiliary Tables 8.1 The Series Table 8.2 Lookup Auxiliary Tables 8.3 Auxiliary Function Tables 8.4 Global Constants Tables 8.5 A Note on Converting Procedural Code to TablesChapter 9 Normalization 9.1 Functional and Multivalued Dependencies 9.2 First Normal Form (1NF) 9.3 Second Normal Form (2NF) 9.4 Third Normal Form (3NF) 9.5 Elementary Key Normal Form (EKNF) 9.6 Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) 9.7 Fourth Normal Form (4NF) 9.8 Fifth Normal Form (5NF) 9.9 Domain-Key Normal Form (DKNF) 9.10 Practical Hints for Normalization 9.11 Key Types 9.12 Practical Hints for DenormalizationChapter 10 Numeric Data Types 10.1 Numeric Types 10.2 Numeric Type Conversion 10.3 Four Function Arithmetic 10.4 Arithmetic and NULLs 10.5 Converting Values to and from NULL 10.6 Mathematical Functions 10.7 Unique Value Generators 10.8 IP AddressesChapter 11 Temporal Data Types 11.1 Notes on Calendar Standards 11.2 SQL Temporal Data Types 11.3 INTERVAL Data Types 11.4 Temporal Arithmetic 11.5 The Nature of Temporal Data ModelsChapter 12 Character Data Types 12.1 Problems with SQL Strings 12.2 Standard String Functions 12.3 Common Vendor Extensions 12.4 Cutter Tables 12.5 Nested ReplacementChapter 13 NULLs: Missing Data in SQL 13.1 Empty and Missing Tables 13.2 Missing Values in Columns 13.3 Context and Missing Values 13.4 Comparing NULLs 13.5 NULLs and Logic 13.6 Math and NULLs 13.7 Functions and NULLs 13.8 NULLs and Host Languages 13.9 Design Advice for NULLs 13.10 A Note on Multiple NULL ValuesChapter 14 Multiple Column Data Elements 14.1 Distance Functions 14.2 Storing an IPv4 Address in SQL 14.3 Storing an IPv6 Address in SQL 14.4 Currency and Other Unit Conversions 14.5 Social Security Numbers 14.6 Rational NumbersChapter 15 Table Operations 15.1 DELETE FROM Statement 15.2 INSERT INTO Statement 15.3 The UPDATE Statement 15.4 A Note on Flaws in a Common Vendor Extension 15.5 MERGE StatementChapter 16 Comparison or Theta Operators 16.1 Converting Data Types 16.2 Row Comparisons in SQL 16.3 IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM OperatorChapter 17 Valued Predicates 17.1 IS NULL 17.2 IS [NOT]{TRUE
- No. of pages: 816
- Language: English
- Edition: 4
- Published: October 18, 2010
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123820228
- eBook ISBN: 9780123820235
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Joe Celko
Joe Celko served 10 years on ANSI/ISO SQL Standards Committee and contributed to the SQL-89 and SQL-92 Standards.
Mr. Celko is author a series of books on SQL and RDBMS for Elsevier/MKP. He is an independent consultant based in Austin, Texas.
He has written over 1200 columns in the computer trade and academic press, mostly dealing with data and databases.
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