This Book, Written For Readers Who Have Little Or No Previous Experience With Databases, SQL, Or SQL Server, Provides A Very Systematic Approach To Learning SQL Using SQL Server. Each Chapter Is Written In A Step-By-Step Manner And Has Examples That Can Be Run Using SQL Server. Using The Sample Tables And Data Provided, The Reader Of This Book Will Be Able To Do All The Examples To Experience Hands-On SQL Programming In SQL Server. The Book Also Presents A Series Of Exercises At The End Of The Chapters To Help Readers Gain Proficiency With SQL. With This Book You Will Learn Beginning SQL Commands - How To Retrieve And Manipulate Data Using The Simple SELECT Statement; How To Customize SQL Server 2008'S Settings And About SQL Server 2008'S Functions; How To Create, Alter, Populate And Delete Tables; About Joins, A Common Database Mechanism For Combining Tables; Query Development, The Use Of Views And Other Derived Structures; Simple Set Operations; About Aggregate Functions; How To Write Subqueries And Correlated Subqueries; How To Create And Use Indexes And Constraints; Transaction Processing.

Designed to exploit Oracle 10g's SQL, this book takes a comprehensive look at Oracle 10g's analytical functions, MODEL statements, and regular expressions. In addition, the book covers collection objects and object-oriented structures and introduces new Oracle 10g topics such as XML and statistical functions. The authors' logical and developmental approach to query building includes a review of older Oracle tools to help in the transition to newer material. This text will teach the reader how to format result sets with SQL*Plus reporting tools; use aggregate functions for partitioning, ordering, and reporting; perform calculations with the MODEL statement; search within strings using regular expressions; work with collection objects; handle XML within SQL.