Job Ready SQL

Learn the most important SQL skills and apply them in your job—quickly and efficiently! SQL (Structured Query Language)

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Job Ready SQL

Table of contents :
Cover
2 Title Page
3 Introduction
1 WHAT DOES THIS BOOK COVER?
2 READER SUPPORT FOR THIS BOOK
3 Part I: Introduction to Database Concepts
1 Lesson 1: Exploring Relational Databases and SQL
1 SAVING DATA
2 WHAT IS A DATABASE?
3 RELATIONAL DATABASE CONCEPTS
4 ACID COMPLIANCE
5 ENTITY INTEGRITY
6 BACKUP STRATEGIES
7 SUMMARY
8 EXERCISES
9 Lesson 2: Applying Normalization
1 WHAT IS NORMALIZATION?
2 NORMALIZING DATA
3 FIRST NORMAL FORM
4 SECOND NORMAL FORM
5 THIRD NORMAL FORM
6 DENORMALIZATION
7 SUMMARY
8 EXERCISES
9 Lesson 3: Creating Entity‐Relationship Diagrams
1 USING ERDs
2 ERD COMPONENTS
3 ERD OF DATABASE
4 WHAT ABOUT MANY‐TO‐MANY RELATIONSHIPS?
5 SUMMARY
6 EXERCISES
7 Lesson 4: Pulling It All Together: Normalizing a Vinyl Record Shop Database
1 THE VINYL RECORD SHOP DATA OVERVIEW
2 STEP 1: IDENTIFY THE ENTITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
3 STEP 2: FIRST NORMAL FORM
4 STEP 3: SECOND NORMAL FORM
5 STEP 4: THIRD NORMAL FORM
6 STEP 5: FINALIZE THE STRUCTURE
7 FINAL STEPS
SUMMARY
9 Part II: Applying SQL
1 Lesson 5: Working with MySQL Server
1 MySQL INSTALLATION
2 MySQL NOTIFIER
3 COMMAND‐LINE INTERFACE
4 GETTING STARTED WITH MySQL WORKBENCH
5 SUMMARY
6 EXERCISES
7 Lesson 6: Diving into SQL
1 INTRODUCTION TO SQL
2 SQL SYNTAX
3 WORKING WITH NULL VALUES
4 WORKING WITH INDEXES
5 SUMMARY
6 EXERCISES
7 Lesson 7: Database Management Using DDL
1 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
2 MySQL DATA TYPES
3 MANAGING TABLES IN MYSQL
4 MANAGING RELATIONSHIPS IN MySQL
5 SUMMARY
6 EXERCISES
7 Lesson 8: Pulling It All Together: Building the Vinyl Record Shop Database
1 STEP 1: EXAMINE THE STRUCTURE
2 STEP 2: CREATE THE DATABASE
3 STEP 3: CREATE THE PRIMARY TABLES
4 STEP 4: CREATE THE RELATED TABLES
5 STEP 5: FINALIZE THE SCRIPT
6 SUMMARY
7 Part III: Data Management and Manipulation
1 Lesson 9: Applying CRUD: Basic Data Management and Manipulation
1 DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE
2 CREATE A DATABASE
3 INSERT DATA
4 UPDATE DATA
5 DELETE DATA
6 SUMMARY
7 EXERCISES
8 Lesson 10: Working with SELECT Queries
1 SETTING UP A DATABASE
2 USING THE SELECT KEYWORD
3 USING THE WHERE CLAUSE
PERFORMING CALCULATIONS
5 SUMMARY
6 EXERCISES
7 Lesson 11: Adding JOIN Queries
1 STARTING WITH A SCHEMA
2 GET DATA FROM MULTIPLE TABLES
3 USE THE JOIN CLAUSE
4 INNER JOIN
5 OUTER JOIN: LEFT, RIGHT, AND FULL
6 SELF‐JOIN AND ALIASES
7 CROSS JOIN
8 SUMMARY
9 EXERCISES
10 Lesson 12: Sorting and Limiting Query Results
1 USING ORDER BY
2 USING LIMIT
3 USING DISTINCT
4 SUMMARY
5 EXERCISES
6 Lesson 13: Grouping and Aggregates
1 AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
2 USING GROUP BY
3 USING HAVING
4 SELECT EVALUATION ORDER
5 OTHER EXAMPLES
6 SUMMARY
7 EXERCISES
8 Lesson 14: Pulling It All Together: Adding Data to the Vinyl Record Shop Database
1 INSERTING DATA
2 IMPORT CSV DATA
3 ADD DATA TO THE SCRIPT
4 TEST THE SCRIPT
5 WRAP UP THE VINYL MUSIC SHOP SCRIPT
6 SUMMARY
7 Lesson 15: Diving into Advanced SQL Topics
1 ADDING SUBQUERIES
2 WORKING WITH VIEWS
3 UNDERSTANDING TRANSACTIONS
4 SCHEMA OPTIMIZATION
5 SUMMARY
6 EXERCISES
7 Appendix A: Bonus Lesson on Applying SQL with Python
1 DATABASE OPERATIONS
2 TABLE OPERATIONS
3 DATA OPERATIONS: CRUD
4 SUMMARY
EXERCISES
6 Appendix B: SQL Quick Reference
1 WORKING WITH DATABASES
2 DEFINING TABLES, COLUMNS, AND ROWS
3 PERFORMING TABLE QUERIES
4 BASIC SQL DATA TYPES
5 Index
6 Copyright
7 Acknowledgments
8 About the Authors
9 About the Technical Writer
10 About the Technical Editor
11 End User License Agreement

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