...Chapter 8 Advanced SQL Chapter Objectives This chapter continues what was covered in Chapter 7. While Chapter 7 dealt with single table queries, Chapter 8 discusses joins. Other topics are also included, such as triggers, stored procedures, functions, Embedded SQL, Dynamic SQL, and Persistent Stored Modules. This chapter also contains a detailed discussion of transaction integrity as well as the SQL-99 enhancements and extensions to SQL. An overview of data dictionaries is also included. Chapter 7 is obviously a prerequisite for this chapter. Specific student learning objectives are included at the beginning of the chapter. From an instructor's point of view, the objectives of this chapter are: 1. To provide many examples of relational queries from SQL, which show such capabilities as multiple-table data retrieval (join and other operators such as difference, union, and intersection), explicit and implicit joining, and built-in functions. 2. To illustrate the differences between the joining and subquery approaches to manipulating multiple tables in SQL. 3. To introduce the transaction and concurrency control features of relational DBMSs. 4. To discuss the SQL-99 enhancements to SQL. 5. To briefly discuss the data dictionary facilities available in Oracle. 6. To discuss triggers and stored procedures and provide examples of how these might be used. 7. To briefly discuss dynamic and embedded SQL. Classroom Ideas 1. Have students program in some system...
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...Written Assignment 3 Explain the SQL commands Union, Intersect, and Minus with concepts like union-compatibility, and syntax alternatives such as IN/NOT IN and various JOIN options Database Management CIS-311 There are many different SQL commands. This assignment will focus on UNION, INTERSECT, and MINUS. UNION combines unique rows returned by two SELECT statements. UNION ALL functions in the same way as UNION except that it also returns duplicates. INTERSECT gives you rows that are found in both queries by eliminating rows that are only found in one or the other. An INTERSECT is simply an inner join where we compare the tuples of one table with those of the other, and select those that appear in both while weeding out duplicates. MINUS returns the rows that are in the first query but not the second by removing the rows that are only found in the second query. There are three primary SQL commands involved when implementing a Union, Intersection and difference relational operators. As you may know, SQL data manipulation commands are set-oriented which are involved in operating over entire sets of rows and columns in tables at once. The UNION, INTERSECT, and MINUS statements make sure these operations occur. Union, Intersect and Minus only work properly if relations are Union-Compatible, which is based on the names of the relation attributes that must be the same and their data types must be alike. Being compatible does not mean the data types have to be exactly the...
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...SQL What's the difference between a primary key and a unique key? Both primary key and unique enforce uniqueness of the column on which they are defined. But by default primary key creates a clustered index on the column, where are unique creates a non-clustered index by default. Another major difference is that, primary key does not allow NULLs, but unique key allows one NULL only. What are user defined data types and when you should go for them? User defined data types let you extend the base SQL Server data types by providing a descriptive name, and format to the database. Take for example, in your database, there is a column called Flight_Num which appears in many tables. In all these tables it should be varchar(8). In this case you could create a user defined data type called Flight_num_type of varchar(8) and use it across all your tables. What is a transaction and what are ACID properties? A transaction is a logical unit of work in which, all the steps must be performed or none. ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability. These are the properties of a transaction. Explain different isolation levels An isolation level determines the degree of isolation of data between concurrent transactions. The default SQL Server isolation level is Read Committed. Here are the other isolation levels (in the ascending order of isolation): Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Serializable. What are constraints? Explain different...
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...and manage SQL Server databases. Our SQL Server Training Courses provide the skills needed to build a solid foundation for SQL Server development. Introduction An overview of DBMS technology * How data is accessed, organized and stored * The database development process * Query and application development tools * CASE tools for database analysis and design * Tables, attributes and relationships * Primary and foreign keys * Relational integrity constraints * Manipulating data: selection, projection, join, union, intersection, difference * An integrated, active data dictionary * The query optimizer * Developing the logical data model * Mapping the data model to the relational model * Specifying integrity constraints * Defining the data in the data dictionary * Capturing entities, attributes and identifiers * Describing relationships: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many * Optional and mandatory relationships * Resolving many-to-many relationships for implementation * Generating the SQL to build the database * Reverse engineering to capture the design of an existing database * SQL Programming Language Introduction 1 Days * Write SQL code based on ANSI/ISO standards to build Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database structures * Update database content with SQL and transaction handling * Retrieve data with filter conditions and from multiple tables using various types of join * Process...
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...Question 1 (2 points) Database professionals use ________ as specific data sources for studies and analyses. Question 1 options: | data marts | | data migration | | entity-relationship data modeling | | normalization | | data models | Bottom of Form Question 2 (2 points) A database is called "self-describing" because it reduces data duplication. Question 2 options: | True | | False | Question 3 (2 points) In a database, each table stores data about a different type of thing. Question 3 options: | True | | False | Question 4 (2 points) Databases record data in such a way that they can produce information. Question 4 options: | True | | False | Question 5 (2 points) A very popular development technique used by database professionals for database design is known as ________. Question 5 options: | entity-relationship data modeling | | data marts | | data migration | | normalization | | data models | Question 6 (2 points) An artificial column added to a relation to serve as the primary key is a(n) ________. Question 6 options: | candidate key | | composite key | | foreign key | | surrogate key | | dependency | Question 7 (2 points) A relation is a three-dimensional table. Question 7 options: | True | | False | Question 8 (2 points) The functional dependency noted as A → B means that the value of A can be determined from the value of B. Question...
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...some people pronounce SQL as “sequel”? Ans: Because of its naming history, SQL is developed from SEQUEL language, so some people pronounce SQL as “sequel”. 2 Why are the manipulation statements of SQL more widely used than the definition and control statements? Ans: Because only the database administrator uses the definition and control statements, while power users and analysts, who are the majority, use the manipulation statements. 3 Is the SQL standard supported in whole or in part? Briefly explain. Ans: The SQL standard is supported in part. Because of the size of the previous standard SQL-92 (contains more than 600 pages) and the current SQL: 1999 standard (contains more than 2,100 pages), there are multiple levels that can be supported. No vendor supports the entire SQL-92 standard now. Most vendors support a super/subset of the standard. With the new SQL: 1999 standard, vendor implementation will likely be more fragmented because of the size and scope of the standard. 4 How many levels of conformance does the SQL-92 standard have? Ans: The SQL-92 specification contained three levels: Entry SQL, Intermediate SQL, and Full SQL. Unfortunately, no vendor claimed conformance beyond Entry SQL although most vendors implemented some features in the higher SQL levels as well as providing proprietary SQL extensions. 5 How many levels of conformance do the SQL: 1999 standard have? Ans: The SQL: 1999 standard contains a single level of conformance called Core SQL. At the time of writing...
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...subquery is to use a join. | | |[pic] | | |Selected Answer: | | |[pic]True | | | | |[pic] Question |5 of 5 points | |2 | | |[pic] |Regarding the interchangeability of subqueries and joins, | | |[pic] | | |Selected Answer: | | |[pic] a join can sometimes be used as an alternative to a subquery, and a subquery can sometimes be used as an alternative to a join. | | ...
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...WAREHOUSING LAB ASSIGNMENT-2 NAME: KESHAV YERRA CSU ID: 2670843 Simulating a Simple Query Processor that evaluates a SQL Query in SelectFrom-Where Specification: This Simple Query Processor is created in order to read an input file and perform the necessary operations specified in that file and obtain the output. As this is a Simple Query Processor we can access only EMPLOYEE and DEPARTMENT tables because the classes are predefined by the user. JDBC/ODBC call is used to fetch the data of tables from SQL Server and the code is written in JAVA. We are using the tables which are created in Lab Assignment 1 in the COMPANY Database. Design & Implementation: First we need to create an input file which contains the execution steps. I have created an input file as “inputfile.txt” which contains the following text: Selection EMPLOYEE DNO=5 EMPS_DNO5 Join EMPS_DNO5 DEPARTMENT DNO=DNUMBER EMP_DEPT_DNO5 Projection EMP_DEPT_DNO5 Fname, Lname, SSN, Dno, Dname EMP_DEPT_ MGR_DEPENDENT Here there are three important cases which are: Selection Join Projection The main aim...
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...SQL & QBE There are three typical operations that are done in querying databases (relational algebra): (1) Project—select columns [SELECT in SQL] (2) Restrict—select rows [WHERE] (3) Join—select columns and merge on rows that meet conditions [FROM] & [WHERE] Relational algebra is not used in current systems. It is a conceptual/theoretical way to manipulate RDBs. Structured Query Language (SQL) is a widely used language that retrieves and updates data in tables and views (manipulate RDBs). QBE is a user interface that simplifies SQL procedures. Other than some minor syntax differences, SQL is standardized. It is very powerful—i.e. you can do almost anything with data tables that you want. It is also simple to use. SQL is set based—returns a subset of tables referenced. Action queries enable user to change, insert, create, and delete data sets (tables). Selection queries retrieve and display data. Parameter queries prompt for input information. Dynasets are temporary tables that Access uses to store data resulting from a query. Tables must be related if used in a query. Natural join (equijoin or inner join)—most common kind of join. Two tables are joined on the common (join) column. The WHERE (=) statement specifies the join column(s) in which the rows have to match. Outer join (full)—all rows from both tables are included in output table (left and right outer joins would include all rows in one table but only the matches from the other). ...
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...Tiny Video is a small movie rental company with a single store. Tiny Video needs a database system to track the rental of movies to its members. Tiny Video can own several copies (VIDEO) of each movie (MOVIE). For example, the store may have 10 copies of the movie ―Twist in the Wind.‖ ―Twist in the Wind‖ would be one MOVIE, and each copy would be a VIDEO. A rental transaction (RENTAL) involves one or more videos being rented to a member (MEMBERSHIP). A video can be rented many times over its lifetime; therefore, there is a M: N relationship between RENTAL and VIDEO. DETAILRENTAL is the bridge table to resolve this relationship. The complete ERD is provided in Figure P1.1. Figure P1.1 Tiny Video ERD Write the SQL code to create the table structures for the entities shown in Figure P1.1. The structures should contain the attributes specified in the ERD. Use data types that would be appropriate for the data that will need to be stored in each attribute. Enforce primary key and foreign key constraints as indicated by the ERD. ****d on the referential integrity constraints, you should be able to identify a correct sequence in which to create the tables. The key point is that due to referential integrity constraints, the table contributing its PK as a FK must be created before the related table containing the FK. Database Schema Definition, Basic Constraints, and Queries Data Definition, Constraints, and Schema Changes CREATE TABLE -Specifies a new base relation by...
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...SQL Coding Proj. Draft Building of Tables and Inserting Values PARENTS TABLE The building of the tables were done in SQL which is a program that the PL/SQL coding is done in that talks to the computer to let the computer know exactly what it needs to create for this particular table. The tables were created for formality purposes to keep the assistant from doing any documentation of parents and children on paper. This saves a lot of time and writing. As a child enrolls in the facility, there information and their parent(s) information is put into the system and created. Once created, I then entered the information that was called out in the creation of the tables. This information is shown below. SQL> CREATE TABLE PARENTS( 2 parent_id numeric(5), 3 gender_code varchar2(8), 4 marital_status_code varchar2(15), 5 first_name varchar2(25), 6 last_name varchar2(30), 7 address varchar2(35), 8 city varchar2(25), 9 state varchar2(2), 10 zipcode numeric(5), 11 email_address varchar2(35), 12 phone_number numeric(10)); Table created. SQL> INSERT INTO PARENTS (parent_id, gender_code, marital_status_code, first_name, last_name, addres s, city, state, zipcode, email_address, phone_number) 2 VALUES ('1100','Female','Single','Kim','Jones','453 Dayton Drive','Midfield','AL','35667','KJon es@yahoo.com','2056377454'); 1 row created. SQL> INSERT INTO PARENTS(parent_id, gender_code, marital_status_code, first_name, last_name...
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... |POS/410 Version 12 | | |SQL for Business | Copyright © 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course covers Structured Query Language (SQL) that provides a unified language that lets you query, manipulate, or control data in a business applications environment. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Vieira, R. (2009). Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, Inc. Software Microsoft SQL Severer 2008 (Virtual Desktop) Supplemental Resource Rob, P., & Coronel, C. (2009). Database systems: Design, implementation, and management (8th ed.). Boston: Course Technology...
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...This week the discussion moves to an extremely important part of relational database and that SQL, it stands for Structured Query Language and is a declarative programming language intended for the management of databases. Unlike other languages that use imperative programming, with declarative programming the end-user is establishing the code that is telling the computer what you would like to happen. Structured Query Language is a relatively simple language that a majority of all relational databases utilize in order to influence data in a database (“What is SQL?,” n.d.). This leads to the question as to why SQL is such a powerful language this is because SQL make available the ability to manipulate any portion of a database through the use of simple commands. Through the use SQL programming language a plethora of functions in a database such as creating and deleting tables, updating and changing data and retrieving specific data to name a few. By probably the single most powerful expression available to the database programmer in SQL is the employment of the “JOIN” command. At this point you may be thinking to yourself what makes this directive so powerful this is because the function allows the user to process a significant amount of data in a swift and efficient manner. While many individual databases may include two or four tables meanwhile businesses may have hundreds or even thousands of table with need to process data across these table this ultimately...
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...01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services 8 TestName2 Lname% 600000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance Table Name : Incentives EMPLOYEE_REF_ID INCENTIVE_DATE INCENTIVE_AMOUNT 1 01-FEB-13 5000 2 01-FEB-13 3000 3 01-FEB-13 4000 1 01-JAN-13 4500 2 01-JAN-13 3500 SQL Queries Interview Questions and Answers on "SQL Select" 1. Get all employee details from the employee table Select * from employee 2. Get First_Name,Last_Name from employee table Select first_name, Last_Name from employee 3. Get First_Name from employee table using alias name “Employee Name” Select first_name Employee Name from employee 4. Get First_Name from employee table in upper case Select upper(FIRST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE 5. Get First_Name from employee table in lower case Select lower(FIRST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE 6. Get unique DEPARTMENT from employee table select distinct DEPARTMENT from EMPLOYEE Don't Miss - SQL and Database theory Interview Questions 7. Select first 3 characters of FIRST_NAME from EMPLOYEE Oracle Equivalent of SQL Server SUBSTRING is SUBSTR, Query : select substr(FIRST_NAME,0,3) from employee SQL Server Equivalent of Oracle SUBSTR is SUBSTRING, Query : select substring(FIRST_NAME,0,3) from employee MySQL Server Equivalent of...
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...SQL Tutorial SQL TUTORIAL Simply Easy Learning by tutorialspoint.com tutorialspoint.com i ABOUT THE TUTORIAL SQL Tutorial SQL is a database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. This tutorial will give you quick start with SQL. Audience This reference has been prepared for the beginners to help them understand the basic to advanced concepts related to SQL languages. Prerequisites Before you start doing practice with various types of examples given in this reference, I'm making an assumption that you are already aware about what is database, especially RDBMS and what is a computer programming language. Copyright & Disclaimer Notice All the content and graphics on this tutorial are the property of tutorialspoint.com. Any content from tutorialspoint.com or this tutorial may not be redistributed or reproduced in any way, shape, or form without the written permission of tutorialspoint.com. Failure to do so is a violation of copyright laws. This tutorial may contain inaccuracies or errors and tutorialspoint provides no guarantee regarding the accuracy of the site or its contents including this tutorial. If you discover that the tutorialspoint.com site or this tutorial content contains some errors, please contact us at webmaster@tutorialspoint.com TUTORIALS POINT Simply Easy Learning Table of Content SQL Tutorial .................................................................
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