Oracle SQL Recipes - Allen, Grant

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Résumé :
Have you ever been faced with a new type of query to write, or been asked to create an unfamiliar database object? In such situations, you have probably wanted a good, solid example upon which to build, and instead have been forced into the drudgery of parsing railroad-style syntax diagrams in Oracle's manual set. This book frees you from that drudgery by providing tested and working examples of SQL used to solve common problems faced by developers and database administrators on a daily basis. When you're under pressure to get results fast, Oracle SQL Recipes is there at your side. Example-based, providing quality solutions to everyday problems Respects your time by putting solutions first and keeping discussions short Solves the most commonly encountered SQL problems

Biographie:
Grant Allen has worked in the IT field for over 20 years, as a CTO, enterprise architect, and database administrator. Grant's roles have covered private enterprise, academia and the government sector around the world, specialising in global-scale systems design, development, and performance. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences, on topics ranging from data mining to compliance, and technologies such as databases (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), content management, collaboration, disruptive innovation, and mobile ecosystems like Android. His first Android application was a task list to remind him to finish all his other unfinished Android projects. Grant works for Google, and in his spare time is completing a Ph.D on building innovative high-technology environments. Grant is the author of Beginning DB2, and lead author of Oracle SQL Recipes and The Definitive Guide to SQLite.

Sommaire:

1. The Basics
2. Summarizing and Aggregating Data
3. Querying from Multiple Tables
4. Creating and Deriving Data
5. Common Query Patterns
6. Working with Date and Time Values
7. Strings
8. Working with Numbers
9. Managing Transactions
10. Data Dictionary
11. Common Reporting Problems
12. Cleansing Data
13. Tree-Structured Data
14. Working with XML Data
15. Partitioning
16. LOBs
17. Database Administration
18. Object Management
19. SQL Monitoring and Tuning
20. Database Troubleshooting