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SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques you need to transform yourself into an expert SQL programmer.
Now, in this fully updated second edition, SQL mastermind Joe Celko keeps you moving forward, using his entertaining, conversational style to teach you the best solutions to old and new challenges and to convey the way you need to think if you really want to get the most out of your SQL programming efforts.
Inside, logic- and set-based analyses replace the traditional, procedural approach to problem-solving, helping you make the conceptual leap that separates an SQL guru from the rest of the pack.
As you catch on to Celko's approach, you'll devour what he has to say about some of SQL's toughest topics: how aggregate functions really work, the best way to work with NULLs, how and why to fake array structures, and much more.
This book gives special emphasis to SQL-92 and product-independent techniques that let you optimize performance or achieve highly specialized behavior, regardless of the RDBMS with which you work.
If you're serious about SQL, you won't let SQL for Smarties out of your sight.
Preface
Introduction
1 Database Design
2 Normalization
3 Numeric Data in SQL
4 Temporal Datatypes in SQL
5 Character Datatypes in SQL
6 NULLs-Missing Data in SQL
7 Other Expressions
8 Other Schema Objects
9 Table Operations
10 Comparison or Theta Operators
11 Valued Predicates
12 LIKE and SIMILAR Predicates
13 BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates
14 The [NOT] IN Predicate
15 EXISTS ( ) Predicate
16 Quantified Subquery Predicate
17 The SELECT Statements Conditional OUTER JOINs
18 VIEWs and TEMPORARY TABLEs
19 Partitioning Data
20 Grouping Operations
21 Aggregate Functions
22 Auxiliary Tables
23 Statistics in SQL
24 Regions, Runs and Sequences
25 Array Structures in SQL
26 Set Operations
27 Subsets
28 Adjacency List Model of Trees in SQL
29 Nested Set Model of Trees in SQL
30 Graphs in SQL
31 Optimizing Code
Appendix: Readings and Resources
References
Index
About the Author
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