Mastering Oracle SQL

Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu

320 pages, parution le 23/05/2002

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Résumé

If you write programs to run against an Oracle database, you spend a lot of time and mental energy writing queries to return the data your programs need. Knowledge of SQL, and particularly of Oracle's implementation of SQL, is the key to writing good queries in a timely manner. In this book, the authors share their knowledge of Oracle SQL, and show you many creative techniques that you can use to advantage in your own applications.

This book shows you how to:

Leverage Oracle's vast library of built-in SQL functions
Query time-based data, and write joins involving date and time ranges
Use Oracle SQL's hierarchical query features to deal with data best represented in a tree format
Use DECODE and CASE to implement conditional logic in your queries
Use Oracle's new, analytic SQL features to write ranking queries, lag and lead queries, windowing queries, and more
Join data from two or more tables using the newly supported SQL92 join syntax

In addition, you'll see how SQL can best be integrated with PL/SQL. You'll also learn various best practices to help you write SQL queries that perform efficiently.

Precious few books on the market today go beyond discussing syntax and the barest rudiments of using Oracle SQL. This book changes that, showing you how to creatively leverage the full power of SQL to write queries in an Oracle environment.

Contents

1. Introduction to SQL
2. The WHERE Clause
3. Joins
4. Group Operations
5. Subqueries
6. Handling Temporal Data
7. Set Operations
8. Hierarchical Queries
9. DECODE and CASE
10. Partitions, Objects, and Collections
11. PL/SQL
12. Advanced Group Operations
13. Advanced Analytic SQL
14. SQL Best Practices

L'auteur - Sanjay Mishra

Sanjay Mishra is a certified Oracle database administrator with more than nine
years of IT experience. For the past six years, he has been involved in the design,
architecture, and implementation of many mission-critical and decision support
databases. He has worked extensively in the areas of database architecture, database
management, backup/recovery, disaster planning, performance tuning, Oracle Parallel
Server, and parallel execution. He has a bachelor of science degree in electrical
engineering and a master of engineering degree in systems science and automation. He
can be reached at sanjay_mishra@i2.com.

L'auteur - Alan Beaulieu

Alan Beaulieu has been designing, building, and implementing custom database applications for over 13 years. He currently runs his own consulting company that specializes in designing Oracle databases and supporting services in the fields of Financial Services and Telecommunications. In building large databases for both OLTP and OLAP environments, Alan utilizes such Oracle features as Parallel Query, Partitioning, and Parallel Server. Alan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research from the Cornell University School of Engineering. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters and can be reached at albeau_mosql@yahoo.com.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu
Parution	23/05/2002
Nb. de pages	320
Format	18 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	516g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596001292