Beginning SQL

Chapter 3
The results to this query also include The Lion, the Witch, and the Chest of Drawers, a film released in 1977:
FilmName
On Golden Puddle
The Lion, the Witch, and the Chest of Drawers
Planet of the Japes
The Maltese Poodle
Soylent Yellow
Before moving on, you should note that while MS Access is happy inserting dates delimited (enclosed
by single quotes), when it comes to SELECT statements and WHERE clauses, Access requires any date
literals to be enclosed by the hash (#) symbol. For example, consider the following code:
WHERE DateOfBirth < #2005-12-23#
SQL queries are all about finding answers to questions. The following Try It Out provides a few questions
and shows you how SQL can provide answers.
Try It Out Querying Your Database
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Five new members have joined the club, so their details need to be added to the database. The following
steps detail how you would add the new members to the Film Club database:
1. Enter the SQL code into your database or download the code from www.wrox.com and then
execute it. Included are the new members’ information and INSERT statements to record their
favorite category of films. Note that if you’re using Oracle, the date formats must be changed
from their current format of year-month-day to the day-month-year format.
INSERT INTO
MemberDetails (MemberId,
FirstName,LastName,DateOfBirth,Street,City,State,ZipCode,Email,DateOfJoining)
VALUES
(
10, ‘Susie’,’Simons’,’1937-1-20’,’Main Road’,’Townsville’,
‘Mega State’,’123456’,’susie@mailme.com’,’2005-08-20’
);
INSERT INTO
FavCategory (CategoryId, MemberId)
VALUES ( 1, 10 );
INSERT INTO
FavCategory (CategoryId, MemberId)
VALUES ( 3, 10 );
INSERT INTO
FavCategory (CategoryId, MemberId)
VALUES ( 6, 10 );
INSERT INTO