Access 2010 SQL Comprehensive

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Book Description

This book is primarily intended for a training/educational environment in a college, University, or technical school.  The goal is to start from point zero in Access 2010 SQL and arrive at the level of a skilled professional.  To that purpose it contains 306 exercises in 31 chapters which the student can complete during class time.  It also contains ten questions after each chapter which the instructor can use for in class discussions or test generation.  There are 320 questions in total in the book.  Finally, it contains sixty case studies, two at the end of each chapter, for additional work as homework or for sharpening the skills learned through each chapter.

The book is the culmination of Pindaro's 12 years of MS Access teaching at the University level to freshmen students with all the inherited fun and challenges.  After hundreds of labs and thousands of questions and comments from the students, Pindaro wrote this book to assist the students in becoming SQL experts so that they can be absolutely successful with their manipulation of data in the working environment.  Currently, no matter the position, industry, or job function, it looks like everyone is asking for SQL skills.

For the instructor, Pindaro tried to make this book as friendly as possible.  First, he personally tested the book in class to see how the labs work in the real training environment.  Second, he has provided a multitude of case studies and questions on real business scenarios so that the students can appreciate the power of SQL for work and business.  Third, he has prepared a separate booklet of 64 pages that the instructor can receive as a pdf file (upon confirmation of instructor status) that includes the solutions to the case studies and provides hints for the code proposed.       

The goal is to learn how to use databases for real business tasks. Pindaro has worked on hundreds of business databases and operational systems for the last 19 years.  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