Access 2010 Pure SQL

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Book Description

This book is the next version of the very popular "Pure SQL" series from AlphaPress. As always, the primary goal of the book is to provide the database professional with solutions to problems in everyday business situations.   For this purpose, the author is following user newsgroups for years where multiple business problems are posted.  Then, he solves the problem asked and provides the example in the book.  That is why all the solutions in the book are business related and most often answers to actual problems faced by professionals.  The second goal of this book is to help people who want to learn SQL from the ground up.  For this reason the author included in the beginning of each chapter some simple but not simplistic examples so that the novice can be gradually introduced to the concepts of SQL and become an expert. 

This book is not a book from a smarty for smarties.  It is a pragmatic book that will save you time by giving you answers to common business scenarios.  For instance, it will explain to you very well what referential integrity is, how we use it, and why it is important for business.  It will explain cross-tabbing  and its significance for business analytical tasks.  However, the book will not bother with teaching you relational algebra and the connection to SQL; it is not intended to waste a second from your reading time.   

Pindaro, has worked on hundreds of business databases and operational systems for the last 19 years and is currently a faculty member in the School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Pindaro's exciting relationship with databases started with DBase III back in 1991, continuing with all versions of Access since early 1993, and working with MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and IBM DB2 for a number of years. He is still in love with all of them.  After almost twenty years, he still works with data, information processing, integration, and dissemination.

Book Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 SQL FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS

CHAPTER 2 CREATE, EDIT, AND DELETE TABLES USING SQL

CHAPTER 3 CREATE, EDIT, AND DELETE INDEXES USING SQL

CHAPTER 4 CREATE, EDIT, DELETE RELATIONSHIPS USING SQL

CHAPTER 5 THE SELECT STATEMENT

CHAPTER 6 THE OR and AND OPERATORS

CHAPTER 7 SORTING RECORDS:  THE ORDER BY CLAUSE

CHAPTER 8  WORKING WITH WILDCARD CHARACTERS

CHAPTER 9 THE LIKE OPERATOR

CHAPTER 10 EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY PREDICATES

CHAPTER 11 THE BETWEEN OPERATOR

CHAPTER 12 THE IN OPERATOR

CHAPTER 13 THE DISTINCT PREDICATE

CHAPTER 14 THE TOP PREDICATE

CHAPTER 15 CALCULATED FIELDS

CHAPTER 16 CONCATENATED FIELDS

CHAPTER 17 THE GROUP BY CLAUSE

CHAPTER 18 AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 19 CROSSTAB QUERIES

CHAPTER 20 PARAMETER QUERIES

CHAPTER 21 CONDITIONAL DATA MANIPULATION

CHAPTER 22 UNION OPERATIONS

CHAPTER 23 DUPLICATE, ORPHANED, and UNRELATED RECORDS

CHAPTER 24 WORKING WITH NULLS

CHAPTER 25 TYPE CONVERSION FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 26 WORKING WITH STRINGS

CHAPTER 27 WORKING WITH DATES

CHAPTER 28 UPDATE SQL STATEMENTS

CHAPTER 29 DELETE STATEMENTS

CHAPTER 30 WORKING WITH JOINS

CHAPTER 31 WORKING WITH SUB-QUERIES

APPENDIX I THE SAMPLE DATABASE

INDEX OF TERMS