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Appendix B You don’t need MyTable again in this book, so delete it by entering the following statement into the <strong>SQL</strong> entry box and clicking Execute: DROP TABLE MyTable If you refresh the Object Browser view, MyTable is no longer listed under the Film Club database. Installing and Using Oracle 10g 444 A fully working evaluation version of Oracle 10g can be downloaded from the Oracle Web site; it’s a massive download (more than 500MB), so patience is definitely a virtue necessary for that download! The current link to the download page is www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ database/oracle10g/index.html. Once you’ve downloaded Oracle 10g, you need to run the single file download so that it’s decompressed to a convenient location. After decompressing the file, select Start ➪ Run and browse to the setup.exe file from where you decompressed the files. Figure B-80 depicts the first screen in the installation process: Figure B-80
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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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Data Type Description Storage Used
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The char and varchar data types use
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Most RDBMSs handle the most common
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To add a new column, use the basic
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Now that you know what you want to
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❑ Meeting date 2 ❑ Location 2
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Generally speaking, picking a data
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example, the MemberId field links t
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Depending on which RDBMS you’re u
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The FilmCategory table is very smal
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2 Entering Information The last cha
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like this: INSERT INTO Category VAL
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Inserting Data into the Case Study
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The WHERE Clause So far you’ve se
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Try It Out Using Logical Operators
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Exercises 1. Three new members have
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Chapter 3 54 MemberId FirstName 1 K
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Chapter 3 The results are as follow
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Chapter 3 The results to this query
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Chapter 3 FavCategory (CategoryId,
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Chapter 3 Logical Operators and Ope
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Chapter 3 The statement returns the
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Chapter 3 NOT Operator Examples thu
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Chapter 3 2. Using the following SQ
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Chapter 3 When you execute the quer
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Chapter 3 Now that you’re acquain
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Chapter 3 It’s as simple as that!
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Chapter 3 76 YearReleased 1947 1967
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Chapter 3 78 FilmName Rating Gone w
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Chapter 3 2. Add a WHERE clause to
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Chapter 3 Executing this SQL provid
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Chapter 3 84 FullName First name is
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Chapter 3 86 FullName First name is
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Chapter 3 Even though DateOfBirth i
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Chapter 3 Member Name The member is
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Chapter 3 92 The preceding SQL prod
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Chapter 3 94 ❑ Category ❑ FavCa
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Chapter 3 96 You’re one step furt
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Chapter 3 98 FirstName LastName Cat
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Chapter 3 This time, you achieve mo
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Chapter 3 SQL Is Set-Based 102 You
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Chapter 3 104 Category MemberId Thr
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Chapter 3 106 You should see the fo
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Chapter 3 The overlapping portions
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Chapter 3 110 More than one conditi
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Chapter 3 112 Next, link the Member
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Chapter 3 114 FirstName LastName Da
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Chapter 3 ❑ The slightly tricky t
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Chapter 4 normalization can make da
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Chapter 4 120 Field Name Data Type
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Chapter 4 122 The Street, City, and
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Chapter 4 MySQL versions prior to 5
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Chapter 4 126 Except for IBM’s DB
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Chapter 4 128 You can add more than
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Chapter 4 Try It Out Adding a CHECK
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Chapter 4 Obviously, if the table i
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Chapter 4 134 Drop the MoreHolidayB
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Chapter 4 136 If you want to return
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Chapter 4 If you’re using IBM DB2
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Chapter 4 140 index helps speed up
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Chapter 4 142 The results you get m
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Chapter 4 144 The results of the qu
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Chapter 4 146 Remember, IBM DB2 doe
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Chapter 4 148 UPDATE Films SET Film
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Chapter 4 150 Finally, you do the s
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Chapter 4 152 SELECT * FROM MemberD
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Chapter 4 ❑ Choose meaningful nam
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5 Manipulating Data In Chapter 3, y
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The results of this query are as fo
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You can raise a number to any power
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To demonstrate the sort of results
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The CEILING() Function The CEILING(
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ased on the digits after the decima
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The SUBSTRING() function works at t
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LastName UPPER(LastName) LOWER(Last
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The LENGTH() function takes just on
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LastName LOWER(SUBSTRING(LastName,1
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FirstName DIFFERENCE(FirstName, ‘
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Converting Different Data Types Thi
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CREATE Table MyTable(FirstColumn in
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The COALESCE() Function The COALESC
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Ideally, this first argument is the
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LocationId Street City State 1 Main
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6 Grouping and Aggregating Data So
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Running the query, complete with a
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MemberId Street City State 11 Newis
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Executing the SQL returns seven dis
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For example, the following code add
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Running the query gives the answer
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SELECT MAX(LastName), MIN(LastName)
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immediately after the GROUP BY stat
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Executing the final SQL provides th
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Chapter 7 The INNER JOIN links the
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Chapter 7 FilmName FirstName LastNa
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Chapter 7 212 As mentioned, that wo
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Chapter 7 Category Street Romance T
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Chapter 7 216 MD1.First MD1.Last MD
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Chapter 7 SELECT MD1.MemberId, MD1.
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Chapter 7 220 SELECT Category, Film
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Chapter 7 222 Location.Street Membe
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Chapter 7 224 Category MemberId War
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Chapter 7 Look at the results that
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Chapter 7 228 The Maltese Poodle 8
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Chapter 7 230 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1
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Chapter 7 232 On Golden Puddle 1967
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8 Queries within Queries This chapt
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There are no films with a value in
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The error wording depends on the da
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Now execute the query. You receive
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The query provides the following re
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If you execute this query, you can
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To obtain the same results as you w
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MemberId 1 10 14 6 5 8 7 11 15 4 13
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Now NOT EXISTS returns true, and as
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This is the same as the query just
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clause specifying that the film’s
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4. Next, quickly double-check a few
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Now that you’ve confirmed that th
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Summary Queries within Queries This
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Chapter 9 264 Figure 9-1 The SQL ne
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Chapter 9 266 INSERT INTO OrderItem
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Chapter 9 268 VALUES (5,7, 2,’200
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Chapter 9 Now that you’ve added t
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Chapter 9 272 FirstName LastName Mo
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Chapter 9 274 DVDPrice column is in
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Chapter 9 SalesPersonId FirstName L
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Chapter 9 278 SalesPersonId MemberI
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Chapter 9 280 SalesPersonId MemberI
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Chapter 9 282 MemberDetails.FirstNa
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Chapter 9 284 The query would work
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Chapter 9 Exercises 286 Assume that
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Chapter 10 Now that you know what v
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Chapter 10 Types of Views Given tha
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Chapter 10 Perhaps you need to view
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Chapter 10 Figure 10-7 Summary view
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Chapter 10 296 This statement gives
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Chapter 10 The CHECK OPTION plays a
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11 Transactions When you move out o
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Example Data This section creates e
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3. Build a record in the Rentals ta
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The other statement that the ANSI S
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SAVE TRANSACTION Select Update Begi
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Figure 11-5 Begin Transaction Delet
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In spite of all of these performanc
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Shared A shared lock essentially me
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of record locks, the DBMS may decid
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No updates, additions, or deletions
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International Board Manufacturer ha
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contention. You could wrap your new
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Summary Transactions ensure that us
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Chapter 12 328 SQL security is cent
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Chapter 12 Creating User IDs Figure
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Chapter 12 3. In the SQL window, ty
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Chapter 12 ❑ You can assign a dif
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Chapter 12 Privileges Privileges ar
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Chapter 12 338 You could then give
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Chapter 12 You might implement this
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Chapter 12 Another shortcut, using
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Chapter 12 As you can imagine, givi
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Chapter 12 The situation gets a lit
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Chapter 12 Summary Database securit
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Chapter 13 robust, fault-tolerant m
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Chapter 13 Gigahertz Networks or Co
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Chapter 13 Database Cache 354 In ad
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Chapter 13 Again, the shotgun appro
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Chapter 13 358 Figure 13-3 Leaf Ind
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Chapter 13 Try It Out Dropping Inde
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Chapter 13 64k Block 64k Block Figu
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Chapter 13 ❑ Inner joins look lik
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Chapter 1 Exercise 1 Solution A Exe
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Chapter 2 Exercise 1 Solution There
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Email, DateOfJoining ) VALUES ( 7,
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Chapter 3 Exercise 1 Solution First
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As well as joining the tables, you
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Figure A-2 Notice that Table1 is re
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Executing the query provides the fo
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Category COUNT(DVDPrice), SUM(DVDPr
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This is the final SQL and gives the
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The results from the query are as f
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Clearly this query hasn’t returne
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Chapter 12 Exercise 1 Solution EXEC
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B Setting Up and Using the Five Dat
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Next, you come to a screen that giv
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Leave the check box for “Configur
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For this book, the default option o
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Now click Next to continue. In the
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Click Finish, and congratulate your
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Figure B-22 Click Ignore to continu
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Figure B-26 Click the Add New Conne
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Figure B-29 Click the triangle next
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Installing and Using IBM DB2 A free
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Figure B-34 The default option of T
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Click Next to continue to the conta
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The screen in Figure B-42 allows yo
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Figure B-45 Figure B-46 Setting Up
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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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