Learn SQL Database Programming

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Query and manipulate databases from popular relational database servers using SQL

What is this book about?

SQL is a powerful querying language that's used to store, manipulate, and retrieve data, and it is one of the most popular languages used by developers to query and analyze data efficiently. If you're looking for a comprehensive introduction to SQL, Learn SQL Database Programming will help you to get up to speed with using SQL to streamline your work in no time. Starting with an overview of relational database management systems, this book will show you how to set up and use MySQL Workbench and design a database using practical examples. You'll also discover how to query and manipulate data with SQL programming using MySQL Workbench. As you advance, you’ll create a database, query single and multiple tables, and modify data using SQL querying. This SQL book covers advanced SQL techniques, including aggregate functions, flow control statements, error handling, and subqueries, and helps you process your data to present your findings. Finally, you’ll implement best practices for writing SQL and designing indexes and tables. By the end of this SQL programming book, you’ll have gained the confidence to use SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate data.

This book covers the following exciting features:

Install, configure, and use MySQL Workbench to restore a database
Explore different data types such as string, numeric, and date and time
Query a single table using the basic SQL SELECT statement and the FROM, WHERE, and ORDER BY clauses
Query multiple tables by understanding various types of table relationships
Modify data in tables using the INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements

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Following is what you need for this book: This book is for business analysts, SQL developers, database administrators, and students learning SQL. If you want to learn how to query and manipulate SQL data for database administration tasks or simply extract and organize relevant data for analysis, you’ll find this book useful. No prior SQL experience is required.

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
4-13	MySQL Workbench 8.0.20	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)

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Get to Know the Author

Josephine Bush has over 10 years of experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, businss, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.

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