Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties 4th Edition

Description

SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 15 years later and in its fourth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! These are not just tips and techniques; also offered are the best solutions to old and new challenges. Joe Celko conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness and performance. New to the fourth edition, Joe features new examples to reflect the ANSI/ISO Standards so anyone can use it. He also updates data element names to meet new ISO-11179 rules with the same experience-based teaching style that made the previous editions the classics they are today.

KEY FEATURES

* 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

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Databases versus File Systems

Chapter 2: Transactions and Concurrency Control

Chapter 3: Schema Level Objects

Chapter 4: Locating Data and Special Numbers

Chapter 5: Base Tables and Related Elements

Chapter 6: Procedural, Semi-Procedural and Declarative Programming

Chapter 7: Procedural Constructs

Chapter 8: Auxiliary Tables

Chapter 9: Normalization

Chapter 10: Numeric Data Types

Chapter 11: Temporal Data Types

Chapter 12: Character Data Types

Chapter 13: NULLs -- Missing Data in SQL

Chapter 14: Multiple Column Data Elements

Chapter 15: Table Operations

Chapter 16: Comparison or Theta Operators

Chapter 17: Valued Predicates

Chapter 18: CASE Expressions

Chapter 19: LIKE and SIMILAR TO Predicates

Chapter 20: BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates

Chapter 21: The [NOT] IN() Predicate

Chapter 22: EXISTS() Predicate

Chapter 23: Quantified Subquery Predicates

Chapter 24: The Simple SELECT Statement

Chapter 25: Advanced SELECT Statements

Chapter 26: Virtual Tables: VIEWs, Derived Tables, CTEs and MQTs

Chapter 27: Partitioning Data in Queries

Chapter 28: Grouping Operations

Chapter 29: Simple Aggregate Functions

Chapter 30: Advanced Grouping, Windowed Aggregation and OLAP in SQL

Chapter 31: Descriptive Statistics in SQL

Chapter 32: Sub-Sequences, Regions, Runs, Gaps, and Islands

Chapter 33: Matrices in SQL

Chapter 34: Set Operations

Chapter 35: Subsets

Chapter 36: Trees and Hierarchies in SQL

Chapter 37: Graphs in SQL

Chapter 38: Temporal Queries

Chapter 39: Optimizing SQL