Introducción a sql

Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL

Student Guide • Volume 1

40049GC11 Production 1.1 October 2001 D33990

Authors
Nancy Greenberg Priya Nathan

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Technical Contributors and Reviewers
Josephine Turner Martin Alvarez Anna Atkinson Don Bates Marco Berbeek Andrew Brannigan
Laszlo Czinkoczki

Michael Gerlach Sharon Gray Rosita Hanoman Mozhe Jalali Sarah Jones Charbel Khouri Christopher Lawless Diana Lorentz Nina Minchen Cuong Nguyen Daphne Nougier Patrick Odell Laura Pezzini Stacey Procter Maribel Renau Bryan RobertsHelen Robertson Sunshine Salmon Casa Sharif Bernard Soleillant Craig Spoonemore Ruediger Steffan Karla Villasenor Andree Wheeley Lachlan Williams

Publisher
Nita Brozowski

Contents

Preface Curriculum Map Introduction Objectives I-2 Oracle9i I-3 Oracle9i Application Server I-5 Oracle9i Database I-6 Relational and Object Relational Database Management System I-7 Oracle Internet Platform I-8System Development Life Cycle I-9 Data Storage on Different Media I-11 Relational Database Concept I-12 Definition of a Relational Database I-13 Data Models I-14 Entity Relationship Model I-15 Entity Relationship Modeling Conventions I-16 Relating Multiple Tables I-18 Relational Database Terminology I-19 Relational Database Properties I-20 Communicating with a RDBMS Using SQL I-21 RelationalDatabase Management System I-22 SQL Statements I-23 Tables Used in the Course I-24 1 Writing Basic SQL SELECT Statements Objectives 1-2 Capabilities of SQL SELECT Statements 1-3 Basic SELECT Statement 1-4 Selecting All Columns 1-5 Selecting Specific Columns 1-6 Writing SQL Statements 1-7 Column Heading Defaults 1-8 Arithmetic Expressions 1-9 Using Arithmetic Operators 1-10 Operator Precedence 1-11Using Parentheses 1-13 Defining a Null Value 1-14 Null Values in Arithmetic Expressions 1-15 Defining a Column Alias 1-16 Using Column Aliases 1-17 Concatenation Operator 1-18 Using the Concatenation Operator 1-19 Literal Character Strings 1-20 Using Literal Character Strings 1-21 Duplicate Rows 1-22 Eliminating Duplicate Rows 1-23
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