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The WHERE Clause So far you’ve seen only a situation in which the database system performs an update if a column is equal to a certain value, but you can use other comparisons as well. The following table details a few of the fundamental comparison operators. Comparison Example Matches All Records in Operator Name Example Film Table Where Rating Is... = Equals WHERE Rating = 5 5 Not equal to WHERE Rating 1 2, 3, 4, or 5 > Greater than WHERE Rating > 2 3, 4, or 5 < Less than WHERE Rating < 4 1, 2, or 3 >= Greater than WHERE Rating >= 3 3, 4, or 5 or equal to
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Beginning SQL Paul Wilton and John
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Beginning SQL Paul Wilton and John
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About the Authors Paul Wilton After
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Paul Wilton: With lots of love to m
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Contents x Selecting Correct Data T
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Contents xii Re-examining NULL 180
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Contents Chapter 11: Transactions 3
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Contents xvi How Do You Do It? 357
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Introduction Data, data, data! Data
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By the time you’ve completed Chap
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Once you download the code, just de
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1 Introduction to SQL A nice, gentl
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Figure 1-1 Why and When to Use a Da
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Databases are great at dealing with
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The SQL language is actually fairly
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you wish, and the database system d
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A keyword is a word that has some m
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Introduction to SQL A perfectly val
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The second query is a negative, in
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Because both conditions (YearReleas
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YearReleased 1984 1980 1977 1975 19
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First, the database system orders t
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LastName FirstName DateOfBirth Nigh
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The preceding SQL returns the follo
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If you put square brackets around i
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Finally, if you want to use an alia
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Member Name The member is called Ka
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FilmName YearReleased Rating Sense
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Figure 3-1 The first task when tack
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That’s all well and good, but so
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Category FirstName LastName War Jen
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Extracting Information FirstName La
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If you take this further and join t
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SELECT * FROM FavCategory Figure 3-
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Category MemberId Thriller 5 Thrill
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Remember to add brackets around the
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surprisingly, the MemberDetails tab
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LocationId 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 Figure 3-6
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includes that record. You should al
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FirstName LastName DateOfBirth Jenn
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4 Advanced Database Design This cha
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Date of Date Meeting Did Member Nam
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Now the tables are in second normal
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After changing the database so that
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IBM’s DB2 doesn’t allow you to
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The following code creates a new ta
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If you’re using DB2, the code is
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The NOT NULL constraint prevents th
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In the preceding code, CustomerId i
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Foreign Key Foreign keys are column
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MemberId MeetingDate Street City St
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The third step had you create the p
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The results are ordered because, by
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The index is no longer needed, so d
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WHERE MemberAttended = ‘Y’; DRO
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Primary keys must be unique and can
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Then add the PRIMARY KEY constraint
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( ); FilmId integer NOT NULL, FilmN
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ALTER TABLE Attendance ADD CONSTRAI
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❑ You learned the importance of e
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Chapter 5 158 Function Operator Mul
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Chapter 5 Consider the following SQ
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Chapter 5 The SQRT() Function The S
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Chapter 5 164 chairperson now also
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Chapter 5 The FLOOR() Function The
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Chapter 5 DVDPrice ROUND(DVDPrice,1
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Chapter 5 Note that, as with all th
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Chapter 5 The TRIM() Functions Trim
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Chapter 5 174 In Oracle and IBM’s
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Chapter 5 176 FirstName SOUNDEX(Fir
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Chapter 5 Date Functions 178 Someti
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Chapter 5 The syntax for the CAST()
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Chapter 5 NULLs and Strings 182 NUL
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Chapter 5 184 SELECT FirstName, Las
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Chapter 5 186 This SQL copies over
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Chapter 5 You also learned that mat
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Chapter 6 190 Begin by looking at h
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Chapter 6 This section covers queri
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Chapter 6 194 This query gives the
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Chapter 6 You’re almost there. Yo
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Chapter 6 the database even though
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Chapter 6 SELECT Category, AVG(DVDP
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Chapter 6 Try It Out Selecting Data
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Chapter 6 SELECT Category, COUNT(Fa
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7 Selecting Data from Different Tab
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Selecting Data from Different Table
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Note that MS Access insists that yo
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City State Orange Town New State Wi
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SELECT FM1.FilmName FROM Films AS F
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Selecting Data from Different Table
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effects of any WHERE clause. There
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Now re-execute the query. You get a
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the category list and a list of whi
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Category FirstName LastName Horror
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You can join the results from two o
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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function and the query still works,
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Summary Selecting Data from Differe
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Chapter 8 A WHERE clause is added t
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Chapter 8 238 FilmName PlotSummary
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Chapter 8 If you think that your jo
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Chapter 8 In the query, the Categor
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Chapter 8 244 There is one area in
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Chapter 8 246 SELECT FirstName, Las
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Chapter 8 248 The subquery (SELECT
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Chapter 8 250 Notice the use of the
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Chapter 8 4. You should receive the
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Chapter 8 254 This inner query retu
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Chapter 8 It’s quite important no
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Chapter 8 258 To tackle this query,
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Chapter 8 260 Now you need to find
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9 Advanced Queries In database prog
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FOREIGN KEY (OrderId) REFERENCES Or
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INSERT INTO Orders(OrderId, MemberI
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INSERT INTO OrderItems(OrderId,Film
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A more complex question could be,
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Advanced Queries What you really wa
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FirstName and LastName. You need to
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2. The film club chairperson also w
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Executing the preceding query provi
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GROUP BY SalesPerson.SalesPersonId,
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Executing the preceding SQL creates
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❑ Use IN with your subqueries. Wh
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10 Views Views, as the name implies
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Try It Out Building a View 1. The p
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FROM dbo.MemberDetails INNER JOIN d
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For example, you might want a list
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However, if you take the case of Me
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However, someone writes a query tha
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Summary As you learned, views are l
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Chapter 11 The information that fol
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Chapter 11 This SQL adds formats (d
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Chapter 11 TRANSACTION statement is
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Chapter 11 Additionally, if a DBMS
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Chapter 11 ROLLBACK TRANSACTION 310
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Chapter 11 Transaction Logs 312 How
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Chapter 11 Database There are perfe
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Chapter 11 In order to find and fix
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Chapter 11 When discussing locking,
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Chapter 11 Usually, the default iso
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Chapter 11 From Sue’s perspective
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Chapter 11 5. At this point, you ne
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12 SQL Security In today’s world,
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Setting up security begins with cre
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ALTER USER username options ALTER U
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In Figure 12-3, three different gro
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How It Works After you run this sta
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check constraints can be used in a
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You could then give SELECT privileg
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Limitations on Views Views are by t
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GRANT SELECT (NAME, SSN, SALARY) ON
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Betsey also grants privileges to Ji
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The CASCADE option tells the DBMS t
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13 Database Tuning SQL is a languag
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Perhaps this doesn’t sound remote
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When an application asks for data f
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The point of all the discussion of
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How Do You Do It? And herein lies t
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The slots are often implemented as
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On the other hand, an index on a tr
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Tuning Tips The following list cont
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Database Tuning Exercises 1. Create
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Appendix A Exercise 2 Solution 368
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Appendix A ( 8, ‘Jack’, ‘John
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Appendix A ZipCode, Email, DateOfJo
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Appendix A Exercise 3 Solution Firs
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Appendix A 376 Figure A-1 ISBN is a
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Appendix A Chapter 5 Exercise 1 Sol
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Appendix A 380 You might receive sl
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Appendix A 382 You should use the f
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Appendix A Your answer may differ,
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Appendix A WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) f
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Appendix A Exercise 2 Solution CREA
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Appendix A Chapter 13 Exercise 1 So
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Appendix B 392 Click the database i
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Appendix B 394 Click Install to beg
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Appendix B 396 Select the Detailed
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Appendix B 398 Leave it at the defa
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Appendix B 400 Having entered your
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Appendix B 402 Figure B-20 The inst
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Appendix B 404 At the very top of t
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Appendix B 406 Having done that, ma
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Appendix B 408 Figure B-30 MyTable
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Appendix B 410 Figure B-32 Click Ne
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Appendix B 412 Click Next to contin
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Appendix B 414 Click OK to clear th
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Appendix B If you’re ready and ha
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Appendix B 418 You can also enter a
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Appendix B 420 Figure B-49 The Film
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Appendix B 422 Now you need to inse
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Appendix B 424 In Access it’s not
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Appendix B 426 Figure B-56 You need
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Appendix B 428 Then click the Run i
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Appendix B 430 The next screen (see
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Appendix B 432 On the next screen,
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Appendix B 434 Click Next to procee
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Appendix B 436 Figure B-72 The huge
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Appendix B 438 Figure B-74 Notice t
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Appendix B 440 Figure B-76 The Obje
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Appendix B 442 Figure B-78 Chapter
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Appendix B You don’t need MyTable
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Appendix B 446 Figure B-82 To begin
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Appendix B Using Oracle’s SQL*Plu
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Appendix B 450 Figure B-87 Another
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Appendix C Category Table The follo
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Appendix C 454 ( 3, ‘Sandra’,
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Appendix C 456 ZipCode, Email, Date
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Appendix C DateOfJoining ) VALUES (
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Appendix C 460 VALUES ( 1, 3 ); INS
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Appendix C VALUES ( 5, 3 ); INSERT
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Appendix C 464 3 ); INSERT INTO Fil
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Appendix C 5, 6 ); INSERT INTO Film
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Appendix C 468 5 ); INSERT INTO Att
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Appendix C Oracle 470 To save some
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Appendix C 472 LocationId, MeetingD
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Symbols + (addition operator), 82,
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BEGIN TRANSACTION statement, 306, 3
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SERIALIZABLE statement, 318 SET TRA
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data types brackets, 25 categories,
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Oracle concatenation, 85-88 configu
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error messages debugging, 26 subque
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concatenation, 85-88 data type comp
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primary keys database creation exam
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concurrent connection selection, 39
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passwords group access, 333 IBM ins
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ROLLBACK statement, 307-308 ROLLBAC
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REPEATABLE READ, 319 REVOKE, 344-34
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telephone numbers, data type select
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historical, data selection, 90-94 N
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