Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, Fourth Edition: Advanced SQL Programming

SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 15 years later and in its fourth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! These are not just tips and techniques; also offered are the best solutions to old and new challenges. Joe Celko conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness and performance. New to the fourth edition, Joe features new examples to reflect the ANSI/ISO Standards so anyone can use it. He also updates data element names to meet new ISO-11179 rules and he expands coverage of SSD, parallel processors and how new hardware will change how SQL works, all with the same experience-based teaching style that made the previous editions the classics they are today. KEY FEATURES Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges. Introduction Chapter 1: Databases versus File Systems Chapter 2: Transactions and Concurrency Control Chapter 3: Schema Level Objects Chapter 4: Locating Data and Special Numbers Chapter 5: Base Tables and Related Elements Chapter 6: Procedural, Semi-Procedural and Declarative Programming Chapter 7: Procedural Constructs Chapter 8: Auxiliary Tables Chapter 9: Normalization Chapter 10: Numeric Data Types Chapter 11: Temporal Data Types Chapter 12: Character Data Types Chapter 13: NULLs Missing Data in SQL Chapter 14: Multiple Column Data Elements Chapter 15: Table Operations Chapter 16: Comparison or Theta Operators Chapter 17: Valued Predicates Chapter 18: CASE Expressions Chapter 19: LIKE and SIMILAR TO Predicates Chapter 20: BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates Chapter 21: The [NOT] IN() Predicate Chapter 22: EXISTS() Predicate Chapter 23: Quantified Subquery Predicates Chapter 24: The Simple SELECT Statement Chapter 25: Advanced SELECT Statements Chapter 26: Virtual Tables: VIEWs, Derived Tables, CTEs and MQTs Chapter 27: Partitioning Data in Queries Chapter 28: Grouping Operations Chapter 29: Simple Aggregate Functions Chapter 30: Advanced Grouping, Windowed Aggregation and OLAP in SQL Chapter 31: Descriptive Statistics in SQL Chapter 32: Sub-Sequences, Regions, Runs, Gaps, and Islands Chapter 33: Matrices in SQL Chapter 34: Set Operations Chapter 35: Subsets Chapter 36: Trees and Hierarchies in SQL Chapter 37: Graphs in SQL Chapter 38: Temporal Queries Chapter 39: Optimizing SQL.

SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 15 years later and in its fourth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! These are not just tips and techniques; also offered are the best solutions to old and new challenges. Joe Celko conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness and performance. New to the fourth edition, Joe features new examples to reflect the ANSI/ISO Standards so anyone can use it. He also updates data element names to meet new ISO—11179 rules with the same experience-based teaching style that made the previous editions the classics they are today.

KEY FEATURES

• Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee
• Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment
• Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges