A Gentle Introduction to

SQL


An interactive SQL tutorial using:

SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer SQL, PostgreSQL and Access.

SELECT statements including joins and functions.

MySQL Performance

Tutorial Section

1) SELECT:
In which we query the CIA World Factbook.
2) SELECT in SELECT:
In which we form queries using other queries.
3) SUM and COUNT:
In which we apply aggregate functions.
4) The JOIN operation:
In which we join two tables; albums and tracks in a music database.
5) More JOIN operations:
In which we join actors to movies in the Movie Database.
6) The OUTER JOIN:
In which we include the parties without people and the people outwith parties in the Scottish Parliament.
SQL User Manuals
[ Mimer | MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | Access | DB2 | Sybase | Postgres]
Online copies of implementation specific user manuals.
Starting SQL
[ MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 ]
How to connect to the server and execute SQL statements.
Programming with SQL
[ SQL in perl on the Web | SQL from Java ]
SQL standard
[ SQL92 BNF ]

Reference Section: how to...

1) CREATE, DROP and ALTER:
[MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 | Access | Postgres]
How to create tables, indexes, views and other things. How to get rid of them.
2) INSERT and DELETE
[MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 | Access | Postgres]
How to put records into a table, change them and how to take them out again.
3) DATE
[MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 | Access | Postgres]
How to work with dates; adding, subtracting and formatting.
4) FUNCTIONS
[MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 | Access | Postgrei]
How to use string functions, logical functions and mathematical functions.
5) USERS
[MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 | Access | Postgres]
How to create users, give them access, get at other peoples tables. How to find processes and kill them.
6) META DATA
[MySQL | Oracle | SQL Server | DB2 | Access | Postgres]
How to find out what tables and columns exist. How to count and limit the rows return.

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By Andrew Cumming of the School of Computing of Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. 1999-2003

Original at https://sqlpass-latam.org [ English | French | German | Italian | Portuguese | Spanish ]

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