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SQL Hacks : Tips and Tools for Digging into Your Data by Gordon Russell and Andrew Cumming (2006, Perfect)
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PublisherO'reilly Media, Incorporated
ISBN-100596527993
ISBN-139780596527990
eBay Product ID (ePID)63751439
Product Key Features
Number of Pages410 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSql Hacks : Tips and Tools for Digging Into Your Data
Publication Year2006
SubjectGeneral, Programming Languages / Sql, Databases / Data Mining, Databases / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorGordon Russell, Andrew Cumming
Subject AreaComputers
FormatPerfect
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Item Weight21.3 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2007-272212
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Table Of ContentCredits; About the Authors; Contributors; Acknowledgments;Preface; Why SQL Hacks?; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Got a Hack?; Safari Enabled;Chapter 1: SQL Fundamentals; Run SQL from the Command Line; Connect to SQL from a Program; Perform Conditional INSERTs; UPDATE the Database; Solve a Crossword Puzzle Using SQL; Don't Perform the Same Calculation Over and Over;Chapter 2: Joins, Unions, and Views; Modify a Schema Without Breaking Existing Queries; Filter Rows and Columns; Filter on Indexed Columns; Convert Subqueries to JOINs; Convert Aggregate Subqueries to JOINs; Simplify Complicated Updates; Choose the Right Join Style for Your Relationships; Generate Combinations;Chapter 3: Text Handling; Search for Keywords Without LIKE; Search for a String Across Columns; Solve Anagrams; Sort Your Email;Chapter 4: Date Handling; Convert Strings to Dates; Uncover Trends in Your Data; Report on Any Date Criteria; Generate Quarterly Reports; Second Tuesday of the Month;Chapter 5: Number Crunching; Multiply Across a Result Set; Keep a Running Total; Include the Rows Your JOIN Forgot; Identify Overlapping Ranges; Avoid Dividing by Zero; Other Ways to COUNT; Calculate the Maximum of Two Fields; Disaggregate a COUNT; Cope with Rounding Errors; Get Values and Subtotals in One Shot; Calculate the Median; Tally Results into a Chart; Calculate the Distance Between GPS Locations; Reconcile Invoices and Remittances; Find Transposition Errors; Apply a Progressive Tax; Calculate Rank;Chapter 6: Online Applications; Copy Web Pages into a Table; Present Data Graphically Using SVG; Add Navigation Features to Web Applications; Tunnel into MySQL from Microsoft Access; Process Web Server Logs; Store Images in a Database; Exploit an SQL Injection Vulnerability; Prevent an SQL Injection Attack;Chapter 7: Organizing Data; Keep Track of Infrequently Changing Values; Combine Tables Containing Different Data; Display Rows As Columns; Display Columns As Rows; Clean Inconsistent Records; Denormalize Your Tables; Import Someone Else's Data; Play Matchmaker; Generate Unique Sequential Numbers;Chapter 8: Storing Small Amounts of Data; Store Parameters in the Database; Define Personalized Parameters; Create a List of Personalized Parameters; Set Security Based on Rows; Issue Queries Without Using a Table; Generate Rows Without Tables;Chapter 9: Locking and Performance; Determine Your Isolation Level; Use Pessimistic Locking; Use Optimistic Locking; Lock Implicitly Within Transactions; Cope with Unexpected Redo; Execute Functions in the Database; Combine Your Queries; Extract Lots of Rows; Extract a Subset of the Results; Mix File and Database Storage; Compare and Synchronize Tables; Minimize Bandwidth in One-to-Many Joins; Compress to Avoid LOBs;Chapter 10: Reporting; Fill in Missing Values in a Pivot Table; Break It Down by Range; Identify Updates Uniquely; Play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon; Build Decision Tables; Generate Sequential or Missing Data; Find the Top n in Each Group; Store Comma-Delimited Lists in a Column; Traverse a Simple Tree; Set Up Queuing in the Database; Generate a Calendar; Test Two Values from a Subquery; Choose Any Three of Five;Chapter 11: Users and Administration; Implement Application-Level Accounts; Export and Import Table Definitions; Deploy Applications; Auto-Create Database Users; Create Users and Administrators; Issue Automatic Updates; Create an Audit Trail;Chapter 12: Wider Access; Sharing Data Across the Internet; Allow an Anonymous Account; Find and Stop Long-Running Queries; Don't Run Out of Disk Space; Run SQL from a Web Page;Colophon;
SynopsisWhether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database. The book offers 100 hacks -- unique tips and tools -- that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical techniques to address complex data manipulation problems. Learn how to: Wrangle data in the most efficient way possible Aggregate and organize your data for meaningful and accurate reporting Make the most of subqueries, joins, and unions Stay on top of the performance of your queries and the server that runs them Avoid common SQL security pitfalls, including the dreaded SQL injection attack Let "SQL Hacks" serve as your toolbox for digging up and manipulating data. If you love to tinker and optimize, SQL is the perfect technology and SQL Hacks is the must-have book for you., Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database. It offers 100 hacks - unique tips and tools - that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the ......, This new book in the critically acclaimed "Hacks" series provides 100 unique tips and tools that push the limits of traditional SQL, from fun things like solving crosswords with SQL to complex data manipulation., Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database. The book offers 100 hacks -- unique tips and tools -- that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical techniques to address complex data manipulation problems. Learn how to: Wrangle data in the most efficient way possible Aggregate and organize your data for meaningful and accurate reporting Make the most of subqueries, joins, and unions Stay on top of the performance of your queries and the server that runs them Avoid common SQL security pitfalls, including the dreaded SQL injection attack Let SQL Hacks serve as your toolbox for digging up and manipulating data. If you love to tinker and optimize, SQL is the perfect technology and SQL Hacks is the must-have book for you., Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database. It offers 100 hacks - unique tips and tools - that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical techniques to address complex data manipulation problems. Learn how to: wrangle data in the most efficient way possible; aggregate and organize your data for meaningful and accurate reporting; make the most of subqueries, joins, and unions; stay on top of the performance of your queries and the server that runs them; and, avoid common SQL security pitfalls, including the dreaded SQL injection attack. Let "SQL Hacks" serve as your toolbox for digging up and manipulating data. If you love to tinker and optimize, SQL is the perfect technology and "SQL Hacks" is the must-have book for you.
LC Classification NumberQA76.73.S67C86 2007
