SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself - Paperback Book - by Ben Forta - 9780135182796 - Pearson Education (US)

By working through the book’s 22 lessons of 10 minutes or less, students will learn what they need to know to take advantage of the SQL language.

Lessons cover IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Express, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle and Oracle express, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Full-color code examples help you understand how SQL statements are structured

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes explain additional concepts, and provide additional information

10 minutes is all students need to learn how to…

Use the major SQL statements

Construct complex SQL statements using multiple clauses and

operators

Retrieve, sort, and format database contents

Pinpoint the data you need using a variety of filtering techniques

Use aggregate functions to summarize data

Join two or more related tables

Insert, update, and delete data

Create and alter database tables