TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeBarros,Anthony
TI  - Practical SQL: a beginner's guide to storytelling with data 
SN  - 9781593278458 (epub)
AV  - QA76.73.S67 
U1  - 005.75  23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - No Starch Press
KW  - SQL (Computer program language)
KW  - Database design
KW  - COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / SQL
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - COMPUTERS / Database Management / General
KW  - COMPUTERS / Database Management / Data Mining
N1  - Includes index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Creating your first database & table -- Chapter 2: Beginning Data Exploration with SELECT -- Chapter 3: Understanding Data Types -- Chapter 4: Importing and Exporting Data -- Chapter 5: Basic Math and Stats -- Chapter 6: Joining Tables in a Relational Database -- Chapter 7: Table Design that Works for You -- Chapter 8: Grouping and Summarizing Data -- Chapter 9: Cleaning , Modifying, Deleting Data -- Chapter 10: Ranks, Rates, asnd Stats -- Chapter 11: Dealing with Dates -- Chapter 12: Advanced Queries -- Chapter 13: Full-Text Search -- Chapter 14: GIS -- Chapter 15: Views -- Chapter 16: Working from the command line -- Chapter 17: Maintenance -- Appendix A: Alternative software and text editors -- Appendix B: Solutions
N2  - "Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as its primary tools.  You'll first cover the fundamentals of databases and the SQL language, then build skills by analyzing data from the U.S. Census and other federal and state government agencies. With exercises and real-world examples in each chapter, this book will teach even those who have never programmed before all the tools necessary to build powerful databases and access information quickly and efficiently.  You'll learn how to:  -Create databases and related tables using your own data  -Define the right data types for your information  -Aggregate, sort, and filter data to find patterns  -Use basic math and advanced statistical functions  -Identify errors in data and clean them up  -Import and export data using delimited text files  -Write queries for geographic information systems (GIS)  -Create advanced queries and automate tasks   Learning SQL doesn't have to be dry and complicated. Practical SQL delivers clear examples with an easy-to-follow approach to teach you the tools you need to build and manage your own databases.  This book uses PostgreSQL, but the SQL syntax is applicable to many database applications, including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL"--
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