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Profiles des pays (BBC).

Quelques points:

  • Il y a une table appelée bbc avec près de 200 entrées.
  • La première entrée est Afghanistan en Asia
  • La dernière entrée est Zimbabwe en Africa.
  • La table a 5 colonnes ou attributs:
    • name (nom)
    • region (région)
    • area (superficie)
    • population (population)
    • gdp (PIB)

Un extrait de la table bbc

name region area population gdp
Yemen Middle East 536869 21500000 12255000000
Zambia Africa 752614 11000000 4950000000
Zimbabwe Africa 390759 12900000 6192000000

Notes

PIB par habitant

Le PIB par habitant est le PIB divisé par la population. C'est une mesure approximé du salaire moyen. Un pays riche est un pays avec un PIB par habitant élevé.

Source

Ces données ont été collectés dans le profile des pays de la BBC - elles peuvent être un peu ancienne. La version la plus récente peut être trouvée ici: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm Quelques modifications ont été effectuées - le lecteur attribuera les erreurs à l'auteur du site et non à la BBC.

Superficie

La superficie est mesurée en kilomètres carrés

PIB

L'auteur a pris la liberté de multiplier le Revenu National Brut (publié par la BBC) par la population. L'auteur est conscient que ce n'est pas correct mais le but de ce tutoriel est d'apprendre les bases de données, pas l'économie.

Notation scientifique

Certaines implémentations de SQL pourront montrer des grands nombres en notation scientifique. Le nombre 6.23 E9 signifie 6.23 x 10 9 soit 6.23 x 1,000,000,000 soit 6,230,000,000
Un million est 10 6 soit 1,000,000
Un milliardest 10 9 soit mille million soit 1,000,000,000
Un trillion est 10 12 , qui est un million de million soit 1,000,000,000,000.


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