Oracle SQL Recipes

1. Front Matter

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2. Foundations of Data Manipulation

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Basics

      • Grant Allen, Bob Bryla, Darl Kuhn

      Pages 3-22

   3. Summarizing and Aggregating Data

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      Pages 23-57

   4. Querying from Multiple Tables

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      Pages 59-81

   5. Creating and Deriving Data

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      Pages 83-107

   6. Common Query Patterns

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      Pages 109-140

3. Data Types and Their Problems

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   2. Working with Date and Time Values

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      Pages 143-165

   3. Strings

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      Pages 167-186

   4. Working with Numbers

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      Pages 187-205

4. Your Development Environment

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   2. Managing Transactions

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      Pages 209-228

   3. Data Dictionary

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      Pages 229-260

5. Special Topics

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   2. Common Reporting Problems

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      Pages 263-285

   3. Cleansing Data

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      Pages 287-311

   4. Tree-Structured Data

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      Pages 313-333

   5. Working with XML Data

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      Pages 335-350

   6. Partitioning

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      Pages 351-381

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

• Oracle
• SQL
• XML
• database
• database administration
• management
• optimization
• performance
• reporting
• time

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.

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