Tutorial Section
- 1) SELECT:
- In which we query the BBC country profile table.
- 2a) More practice with SELECT:
- Additional practice of the basic features using a table of Nobel Prize
winners.
- 2b) SELECT in SELECT:
- In which we form queries using other queries.
- 3) SUM and COUNT:
- In which we apply aggregate functions.
[more the same]
- 4) The JOIN operation:
- In which we join two tables;
ttms and country.
[previously music tutorial]
- 5) More JOIN operations:
- In which we join actors to movies in the Movie Database.
- 6) Using Null:
- In which we look at teachers in departments.
[previously Scottish Paliament]
- 7) Self join:
- In which we join Edinburgh bus routes to Edinburgh bus
routes.
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Reference Section: how to...
- 1)
SELECT:
- How to read the data from a database.
- 2)
CREATE and DROP:
- How to create tables, indexes, views and other things. How to
get rid of them.
- 3)
INSERT and DELETE
- How to put records into a table, change them and how to take
them out again.
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DATE and TIME
- How to work with dates; adding, subtracting and
formatting.
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Functions
- How to use string functions, logical functions and mathematical
functions.
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Users
- How to create users, GRANT and DENY access, get at other peoples
tables. How to find processes and kill them.
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Meta Data
- How to find out what tables and columns exist. How to count and
limit the rows return.
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from SQL engines
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