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Essential IT Skills for On-the-Job Success
Learn to use a database to transform vast amounts of information into orderly, correlated data. Introduction to Relational Databases and SQL Programming introduces fundamental database concepts, then teaches you how to store, retrieve, and manipulate data and how to use SQL and PL/SQL. Using Oracle9i as an example, the book offers hands-on tutorials and exercises, including the Clapham Specialty Store case study, so you can apply your skills to real-world business scenarios.Inside this book, you will learn how to:
- Work with key database components--tables, rows, records, columns, and fields
- Store and retrieve data
- Perform advanced data manipulation
- Control SQL*Plus
- Apply Oracle SQL built-in functions
- Determine when to use an index
- Create PL/SQL programs
- Read data models
- Design a database structure
- Normalize your database and correct data anomalies
- Analyze data quality issues
Each chapter includes:
- Learning Objectives
- Many Figures and Illustrations
- Clapham Specialty Store Case
- Step-by-Step Tutorials
- Real-World Examples
- Cross Check Exercises
- Inside Information Sidebars
- Helpful Notes, Tips, and Warnings
- Chapter Summaries and Key Term Lists
- End-of-Chapter Quizzes and Lab Projects
CD-ROM includes trial version of Oracle 9
i Standard Edition
Synopsis
This textbook will provide a hands-on approach to relational database design and database management within an Oracle context.
Synopsis
This text provides hands-on instruction to relational database design and management using Oracle examples. The proven format features step-by-step tutorials, end-of-chapter reviews, practice questions, key term lists, and lab projects.
Table of Contents
1: Introducing Relational Databases 2: Storing and Retrieving Data: The Basics 3: Performing Advanced Data Manipulation 4: Controlling SQL*Plus 5: Oracle SQL Built-in Functions 6: Indexes, Joins, and Subqueries 7: Creating a Program with PL/SQL 8: Reading a Data Model 9: Basics of Designing a Database’s Structure 10: Normalization 11: Analyzing Data Quality Issues 12: Other Useful Oracle Techniques Appendix: On the CD-ROMs