Art of SQL

Name: Art of SQL
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ISBN: 9780596008949

ISBN-10: 0596008945

ISBN-13: 9780596008949

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephane Faroult, Peter Robson

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SQL is the universal mode of database access for the majority of products on the market today. Use of this query language is therefore a combination of the pragmatic, the technical and the strategic. In "The Art of SQL," the goal is not to focus on specifics, though specifics are certainly used in the examples, but to impart universal principles that you can benefit from regardless of the vendor platform you use. Authors Stephane Faroult and Peter Robson -- SQL experts who have been involved with Oracle for nearly two decades -- demonstrate that SQL operations can be thought of as a pile of Lego blocks. You have to put them together in different ways to solve different problems. In so…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/18/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 367
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.17" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Stephane Faroult first discovered relational databases and the SQL language back in 1983. He joined Oracle France in their early days (after a brief spell with IBM and a bout of teaching at the University of Ottawa) and soon developed an interest in performance and tuning topics. After leaving Oracle in 1988, he briefly tried to reform and did a bit of operational research, but after one year, he succumbed again to relational databases. He has been continuously performing database consultancy since then, and founded RoughSea Ltd in 1998.



Dedication


Preface



Laying Plans



Waging War



Tactical Dispositions



Maneuvering



Terrain



The Nine Situations



Variations in Tactics



Weaknesses and Strengths



Multiple Fronts



Assembly of Forces



Stratagems



Employment of Spies


Photo Credits


About the Author