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• Table of Contents
• Index
• Reviews
• Examples
• Reader Reviews
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Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition By Alan Beaulieu, Sanjay Mishra
Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: June 2004
ISBN: 0-596-00632-2 Pages: 492
Updated to cover Oracle 10g, this new edition of the highly regarded
Mastering Oracle SQL
has
a stronger focus on practical, expert best-practices and on Oracle-specific SQL technique than
any other book on the market For those who want to harness the untapped (and often
overlooked) power of Oracle SQL, this essential guide for putting Oracle SQL to work will prove
invaluable.
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• Table of Contents
• Index
• Reviews
• Examples
• Reader Reviews
• Errata
• Academic
Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition By Alan Beaulieu, Sanjay Mishra
Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: June 2004
ISBN: 0-596-00632-2 Pages: 492
Updated to cover Oracle 10g, this new edition of the highly regarded
Mastering Oracle SQL
has
a stronger focus on practical, expert best-practices and on Oracle-specific SQL technique than
any other book on the market For those who want to harness the untapped (and often
overlooked) power of Oracle SQL, this essential guide for putting Oracle SQL to work will prove
invaluable.
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• Table of Contents
• Index
• Reviews
• Examples
• Reader Reviews
• Errata
• Academic
Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition By Alan Beaulieu, Sanjay Mishra
Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: June 2004
ISBN: 0-596-00632-2 Pages: 492
Copyright
Preface
Why We Wrote This Book
What's New in Oracle SQL?
Objectives of This Book
Audience for This Book
Platform and Version
Structure of This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
Chapter Introduction to SQL
Section 1.1 What Is SQL?
Section 1.2 A Brief History of SQL
Section 1.3 A Simple Database
Section 1.4 DML Statements
Section 1.5 So Why Are There 17 More Chapters?
Chapter The WHERE Clause
Section 2.1 Life Without WHERE
Section 2.2 WHERE to the Rescue
Section 2.3 WHERE Clause Evaluation
(3)Section 2.5 WHERE to Go from Here
Chapter Joins
Section 3.1 What Is a Join Query?
Section 3.2 Join Conditions
Section 3.3 Types of Joins
Section 3.4 Joins and Subqueries
Section 3.5 DML Statements on a Join View
Chapter Group Operations
Section 4.1 Aggregate Functions
Section 4.2 The GROUP BY Clause
Section 4.3 The HAVING Clause
Section 4.4 Nested Group Operations
Chapter Subqueries
Section 5.1 What Is a Subquery?
Section 5.2 Noncorrelated Subqueries
Section 5.3 Correlated Subqueries
Section 5.4 Inline Views
Section 5.5 Subquery Case Study: The Top N Performers
Chapter Handling Temporal Data
Section 6.1 Time Zones
Section 6.2 Temporal Data Types in Oracle
Section 6.3 Literals of Temporal Types
Section 6.4 Getting Temporal Data In and Out of a Database
Section 6.5 Date and Time Formats
Section 6.6 Manipulating Temporal Data
Chapter Set Operations
Section 7.1 Set Operators
Section 7.2 Precedence of Set Operators
Section 7.3 Comparing Two Tables
Section 7.4 Using NULLs in Compound Queries
Section 7.5 Rules and Restrictions on Set Operations
Chapter Hierarchical Queries
Section 8.1 Representing Hierarchical Information
Section 8.2 Simple Hierarchy Operations
Section 8.3 Oracle SQL Extensions
Section 8.4 Complex Hierarchy Operations
Section 8.5 Restrictions on Hierarchical Queries
Section 8.6 Enhancements in Oracle Database 10g
Chapter DECODE and CASE
Section 9.1 DECODE, NULLIF, NVL, and NVL2
Section 9.2 The Case for CASE
Section 9.3 DECODE and CASE Examples
Chapter 10 Partitioning
Section 10.1 Partitioning Concepts
Section 10.2 Partitioning Tables
Section 10.3 Partitioning Indexes
Section 10.4 Partitioning Methods
Section 10.5 Specifying Partitions
Section 10.6 Partition Pruning
(4)Section 11.1 What Is PL/SQL?
Section 11.2 Procedures, Functions, and Packages
Section 11.3 Calling Stored Functions from Queries
Section 11.4 Restrictions on Calling PL/SQL from SQL
Section 11.5 Stored Functions in DML Statements
Section 11.6 The SQL Inside Your PL/SQL
Chapter 12 Objects and Collections
Section 12.1 Object Types
Section 12.2 Collection Types
Section 12.3 Collection Instantiation
Section 12.4 Querying Collections
Section 12.5 Collection Unnesting
Section 12.6 Collection Functions
Section 12.7 Comparing Collections
Section 12.8 Manipulating Collections
Section 12.9 Multilevel Collections
Chapter 13 Advanced Group Operations
Section 13.1 Multiple Summary Levels
Section 13.2 Pushing the GROUPING Envelope
Section 13.3 The GROUPING_ID and GROUP_ID Functions
Chapter 14 Advanced Analytic SQL
Section 14.1 Analytic SQL Overview
Section 14.2 Ranking Functions
Section 14.3 Windowing Functions
Section 14.4 Reporting Functions
Section 14.5 Summary
Chapter 15 SQL Best Practices
Section 15.1 Know When to Use Specific Constructs
Section 15.2 Avoid Unnecessary Parsing
Section 15.3 Consider Literal SQL for Decision-Support Systems
Chapter 16 XML
Section 16.1 What Is XML?
Section 16.2 Storing XML Data
Section 16.3 Generating XML Documents
Section 16.4 Summary
Chapter 17 Regular Expressions
Section 17.1 Elementary Regular Expression Syntax
Section 17.2 Advanced Function Options
Section 17.3 Advanced Regular Expression Syntax
Chapter 18 Model Queries
Section 18.1 Basic Elements of a Model Query
Section 18.2 Cell References
Section 18.3 Rules
Section 18.4 Iterative Models
Section 18.5 Reference Models
Appendix A Oracle's Old Join Syntax
Section A.1 Old Inner Join Syntax
Section A.2 Old Outer Join Syntax
Section A.3 Advantages of the New Join Syntax
(5)Index
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[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
YEAR TO MONTH interval literal
years
AD/BC indicators
finding number between dates
ISO standard
two-digit YY (year) indicator
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[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] zeros
division by errors
in years
one-to-many relationship evaluation
SELECT statements