Beginning SQL

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Introduction Data, data, data! Data is where it’s at as far as computers go, whether processing millions of calculations or keeping a record of your Aunt Maude’s birthday. When it comes to storing data, the database is the king. In almost eight years of professional programming, every single project I’ve worked on has involved databases somewhere along the line — that’s how essential they are to most business applications and projects. Admittedly, some areas, such as computer games, don’t make the same use of databases. My guess is that “Mega Doom 99: The Final Bloody Massacre” isn’t running an Oracle database in the background! However, I have a confession! Around 10 years ago, when I first started learning about databases, I initially found them very confusing. I’d been programming in my spare time for a few years and was used to using text files to store information. I decided to leap right in and start creating databases and writing SQL, and I got very confused and odd results. Databases, their design, and their underlying concepts are very different from storing data in simple files, and the Structured Query Language (SQL) used to access and manipulate data in databases is very different from any procedural language. One of my first aims with this book is to soften the blow of new concepts and ways of doing things. To that end, I explain all the underlying concepts and theory you’ll need to get started with databases and in programming with SQL. How to get the answers you want from a database and all the results you get will be fully explained, as SQL can throw up some surprises if you’re not forewarned. Another of my aims in writing this book is to get you quickly and effectively to the point where you’re able to go off on your own and design your own databases and write your own SQL code in a practical environment. Personally, I dislike books that waffle on about every small detail and eventuality so that it takes months to be able to stand on your own feet and create your own work. I stick with the stuff that you’ll find is used in most database applications, keeping the fine details and more advanced stuff for the later chapters. The first few chapters’ aim is to get you up and running in SQL quickly, but they do not skimp on essential concepts, code, and techniques, which are all thoroughly discussed and backed up with lots of practical examples. Finally, I’m a hands-on, practical person, and those are the sort of computer books I like to read, rather than books that contain lots of theory. This book reflects my “put it into action” nature and is full of examples and places where you can get hands-on experience. I do introduce and explain theory where it’s necessary to build a foundation of understanding, but I do this only with the
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Chapter 1 The following SQL creates
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Chapter 1 You should now know enoug
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Chapter 1 30 Date of Date of Meetin
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Chapter 1 The Attendance table coul
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Chapter 1 34 to thousands of member
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Chapter 1 36 Field Name Data Type N
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Chapter 1 38 Finally, you need to a
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Chapter 1 ❑ Databases are part of
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Chapter 2 42 CategoryId Category 1
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Chapter 2 44 Member First Last Date
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Chapter 2 46 Now Steve’s record l
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Chapter 2 This would work fine with
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Chapter 2 If you want to delete all
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3 Extracting Information So far you
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Returning Only Distinct Rows If you
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The good news is that everything yo
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MemberDetails (MemberId, FirstName,
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MemberDetails table, the columns Fi
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State DateOfJoining New State 2005-
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It simply tells the database system
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The BETWEEN operator functions exac
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The final condition required is a c
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In some database systems, the LIKE
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The second query is a negative, in
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Because both conditions (YearReleas
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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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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 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 5, 6 ); INSERT INTO Film
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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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