Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Advanced SQL Programming
By- Joe Celko, Independent Consultant & Columnist for
Intelligent Enterprise , USA
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.
Audience
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.
Paperback, 816 Pages
Published: October 2010
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-12-382022-8
Reviews
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"If you work with SQL in any way, shape, or form, the most recent edition of Joe Celkos SQL for Smarties needs to be on your bookshelf!" --Data Technology Today Blog
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Databases versus File Systems
Chapter 2: Transactions and Concurrency Control
Chapter 3: Schema Level ObjectsChapter 4: Locating Data and Special Numbers
Chapter 5: Base Tables and Related ElementsChapter 6: Procedural, Semi-Procedural and Declarative Programming
Chapter 7: Procedural ConstructsChapter 8: Auxiliary Tables
Chapter 9: NormalizationChapter 10: Numeric Data Types
Chapter 11: Temporal Data TypesChapter 12: Character Data Types
Chapter 13: NULLs -- Missing Data in SQLChapter 14: Multiple Column Data Elements
Chapter 15: Table OperationsChapter 16: Comparison or Theta Operators
Chapter 17: Valued PredicatesChapter 18: CASE Expressions
Chapter 19: LIKE and SIMILAR TO PredicatesChapter 20: BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates
Chapter 21: The [NOT] IN() PredicateChapter 22: EXISTS() Predicate
Chapter 23: Quantified Subquery PredicatesChapter 24: The Simple SELECT Statement
Chapter 25: Advanced SELECT StatementsChapter 26: Virtual Tables: VIEWs, Derived Tables, CTEs and MQTs
Chapter 27: Partitioning Data in QueriesChapter 28: Grouping Operations
Chapter 29: Simple Aggregate FunctionsChapter 30: Advanced Grouping, Windowed Aggregation and OLAP in SQL
Chapter 31: Descriptive Statistics in SQLChapter 32: Sub-Sequences, Regions, Runs, Gaps, and Islands
Chapter 33: Matrices in SQLChapter 34: Set Operations
Chapter 35: SubsetsChapter 36: Trees and Hierarchies in SQL
Chapter 37: Graphs in SQLChapter 38: Temporal Queries
Chapter 39: Optimizing SQL
