《Effective SQL：編寫高質量SQL語句的61條有效方法（英文版）》是2017年電子工業出版社出版的圖書，作者是（法國）John L. Viescas（約翰·威克斯）,（加拿大）Douglas J.Steele（道格拉斯·斯蒂爾）,（美國）Ben G.Clothier（本·克洛希爾）。
基本介紹
- 中文名： Effective SQL：編寫高質量SQL語句的61條有效方法（英文版）
- 作者：（法國）John L. Viescas（約翰·威克斯）,（加拿大）Douglas J.Steele（道格拉斯·斯蒂爾）,（美國）Ben G.Clothier（本·克洛希爾）
- 出版時間：2017年
- 出版社： 電子工業出版社
- 頁數：348 頁
- ISBN： 9787121322846
- 定價：89 元
- 開本：16 開
內容簡介,圖書目錄,
內容簡介
本書全面系統地介紹了SQL語言各方面的基礎知識以及一些高級特性，包括SQL數據語言、SQL方案語言、數據集操作、子查詢以及內建函式與條件邏輯等內容。書中每個章節講述一個相對獨立的主題，並提供了相關示例和練習。涵蓋了市場上常用資料庫版本（MySQL 、Oracle 及Microsoft SQL Server等 ）。同時針對開發基於資料庫的應用程式，以及日常的資料庫系統管理，本書都展現了大量經過實踐檢驗的方法和技巧。讀者可以通過對本書循序漸進地學習快速掌握SQL語言，也可以在實際工作中遇到問題時直接翻閱本書中的相關章節以獲取解決方案。
圖書目錄
Introduction 1
A Brief History of SQL 1
Database Systems We Considered 5
Sample Databases 6
Where to Find the Samples on GitHub 7
Summary of the Chapters 8
Chapter 1: Data Model Design 11
Item 1: Verify That All Tables Have a Primary Key 11
Item 2: Eliminate Redundant Storage of Data Items 15
Item 3: Get Rid of Repeating Groups 19
Item 4: Store Only One Property per Column 21
Item 5: Understand Why Storing Calculated Data Is Usually a Bad Idea 25
Item 6: Define Foreign Keys to Protect Referential Integrity 30
Item 7: Be Sure Your Table Relationships Make Sense 33
Item 8: When 3NF Is Not Enough, Normalize More 37
Item 9: Use Denormalization for Information Warehouses 43
Chapter 2: Programmability and Index Design 47
Item 10: Factor in Nulls When Creating Indexes 47
Item 11: Carefully Consider Creation of Indexes to Minimize Index and Data Scanning 52
Item 12: Use Indexes for More than Just Filtering 56
Item 13: Don’t Go Overboard with Triggers 61
Item 14: Consider Using a Filtered Index to Include or
Exclude a Subset of Data 65
Item 15: Use Declarative Constraints Instead of Programming Checks 68
Item 16: Know Which SQL Dialect Your Product Uses and Write Accordingly 70
Item 17: Know When to Use Calculated Results in Indexes 74
Chapter 3: When You Can’t Change the Design 79
Item 18: Use Views to Simplify What Cannot Be Changed 79
Item 19: Use ETL to Turn Nonrelational Data into Information 85
Item 20: Create Summary Tables and Maintain Them 90
Item 21: Use UNION Statements to “Unpivot” Non-normalized Data 94
Chapter 4: Filtering and Finding Data 101
Item 22: Understand Relational Algebra and How It Is Implemented in SQL 101
Item 23: Find Non-matches or Missing Records 108
Item 24: Know When to Use CASE to Solve a Problem 110
Item 25: Know Techniques to Solve Multiple-Criteria
Problems 115
Item 26: Divide Your Data If You Need a Perfect Match 120
Item 27: Know How to Correctly Filter a Range of Dates on a Column Containing Both Date and Time 124
Item 28: Write Sargable Queries to Ensure That the Engine Will Use Indexes 127
Item 29: Correctly Filter the “Right” Side of a “Left” Join 132
Chapter 5: Aggregation 135
Item 30: Understand How GROUP BY Works 135
Item 31: Keep the GROUP BY Clause Small 142
Item 32: Leverage GROUP BY/HAVING to Solve Complex Problems 145
Item 33: Find Maximum or Minimum Values Without Using GROUP BY 150
Item 34: Avoid Getting an Erroneous COUNT When Using OUTER JOIN 156
Item 35: Include Zero-Value Rows When Testing for HAVING COUNT(x) ＜ Some Number 159
Item 36: Use DISTINCT to Get Distinct Counts 163
Item 37: Know How to Use Window Functions 166
Item 38: Create Row Numbers and Rank a Row over
Other Rows 169
Item 39: Create a Moving Aggregate 172
Chapter 6: Subqueries 179
Item 40: Know Where You Can Use Subqueries 179
Item 41: Know the Difference between Correlated and Non-correlated Subqueries 184
Item 42: If Possible, Use Common Table Expressions Instead of Subqueries 190
Item 43: Create More Efficient Queries Using Joins Rather than Subqueries 197
Chapter 7: Getting and Analyzing Metadata 201
Item 44: Learn to Use Your System’s Query Analyzer 201
Item 45: Learn to Get Metadata about Your Database 212
Item 46: Understand How the Execution Plan Works 217
Chapter 8: Cartesian Products 227
Item 47: Produce Combinations of Rows between Two Tables and Flag Rows in the Second That Indirectly Relate to the First 227
Item 48: Understand How to Rank Rows by Equal
Quantiles 231
Item 49: Know How to Pair Rows in a Table with All Other Rows 235
Item 50: Understand How to List Categories and the Count of First, Second, or Third Preferences 240
Chapter 9: Tally Tables 247
Item 51: Use a Tally Table to Generate Null Rows Based on a Parameter 247
Item 52: Use a Tally Table and Window Functions for Sequencing 252
Item 53: Generate Multiple Rows Based on Range Values in a Tally Table 257
Item 54: Convert a Value in One Table Based on a Range of Values in a Tally Table 261
Item 55: Use a Date Table to Simplify Date Calculation 268
Item 56: Create an Appointment Calendar Table with All Dates Enumerated in a Range 275
Item 57: Pivot Data Using a Tally Table 278
Chapter 10: Modeling Hierarchical Data 285
Item 58: Use an Adjacency List Model as the Starting Point 286
Item 59: Use Nested Sets for Fast Querying Performance with Infrequent Updates 288
Item 60: Use a Materialized Path for Simple Setup and Limited Searching 291
Item 61: Use Ancestry Traversal Closure for Complex Searching 294
Appendix: Date and Time Types, Operations,
and Functions 299
IBM DB2 299
Microsoft Access 303
Microsoft SQL Server 305
MySQL 308
Oracle 313
PostgreSQL 315
Index 317
