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Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel
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A practical guide to data mining using SQL and Excel Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel, 2nd Edition shows you how to leverage the two most popular tools for data query and analysisSQL and Excelto perform sophisticated data analysis without the need for complex and expensive data mining tools. Written by a leading expert on business data mining,...

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Effective SQL
Effective SQL

61 Specific Ways to Write Better SQL (Effective Software Development Series)

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Available recommendation signals suggest this title has discovery traction, but there is not enough safe category context to make a stronger reader-fit claim.
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No coverLearning SQL
Learning SQL

Master SQL Fundamentals

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Updated for the latest database management systems including MySQL 6.0, Oracle 11g, and Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 this introductory guide will get you up and running with SQL quickly. Whether you need to write database applications, perform administrative tasks, or generate reports, Learning SQL, Second Edition, will help you easily master ...

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No coverSQL Pocket Guide
SQL Pocket Guide

A Guide to SQL Usage

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If you're a programmer or database administrator who uses SQL in your daytoday work, this popular pocket guide is the ideal onthejob reference. You'll find many examples that address the language's complexity, along with key aspects of SQL used in IBM DB2 Release 9.7, MySQL 5.1, Oracle Database 11g Release 2, PostgreSQL 9.0, and Microsoft SQL S...

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No coverSQL
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2015 Edition. Perfect for end users, analysts, data scientists, and app developers, this bestselling guide will get you up and running with SQL, the language of databases. You'll find general concepts, practical answers, and clear explanations of what the various SQL statements can do. Hundreds of examples of varied difficulty encourage you to exp...

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SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning
SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning

Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance

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Identify and fix causes of poor performance. You will learn Query Store, adaptive execution plans, and automated tuning on the Microsoft Azure SQL Database platform. Anyone responsible for writing or creating TSQL queries will find valuable the insight into bottlenecks, including how to recognize them and eliminate them.This book covers the latest...

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No coverSQL
SQL

The Ultimate Beginners Guide

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SQL: The Ultimate Beginners Guide Learn SQL TodayLearning the SQL language can be laborious and tedious, but if you have genuine interest in learning a new language and updating your skills, it could be relatively easy.In this book, all the basic information that you need to learn as a beginner are presented. All you have to do is to apply them.T...

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SQL QuickStart Guide
SQL QuickStart Guide

The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL

Description

"THE BEST SQL BOOK FOR BEGINNERS IN 2020 HANDS DOWN!" INCLUDES FREE ACCESS TO A SAMPLE DATABASE, SQL BROWSER APP, COMPREHENSION QUIZES & SEVERAL OTHER DIGITAL RESOURCES! Not sure how to prepare for the datadriven future This book shows you EXACTLY what you need to know to successfully use the SQL Programming, language to enhance your career! ...

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No coverSQL For Dummies
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Get ready to make SQL easy!Updated for the latest version of SQL, the new edition of this perennial bestseller shows programmers and web developers how to use SQL to build relational databases and get valuable information from them. Covering everything you need to know to make working with SQL easier than ever, topics include how to use SQL to stru...

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No coverHigh Performance MySQL
High Performance MySQL

Optimization, Backups, and Replication

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How can you bring out MySQL?s full power With High Performance MySQL, you?ll learn advanced techniques for everything from designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. This guide also teaches you safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, loa...

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No coverTSQL Fundamentals
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Effectively query and modify data using TransactSQL Master TSQL fundamentals and write robust code for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Itzik BenGan explains key TSQL concepts and helps you apply your knowledge with handson exercises. The book first introduces TSQL's roots and underlying logic. Next, it walks you through core topi...

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Practical SQL
Practical SQL

A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

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Practical SQL is an approachable and fastpaced 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 opensource database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as its primary t...

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SQL Performance Tuning
Description

A poorly performing database application can cost each user time, and have an impact on other applications running on the same computer or the same network. This book will help DBA's and programmers improve the performance of their databases. It is not an introduction to SQL, nor is it a tuning manual for a particular SQL implementation. It is a gu...

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SQL Server 2019 Revealed
SQL Server 2019 Revealed

Including Big Data Clusters and Machine Learning

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Get up to speed on the gamechanging developments in SQL Server 2019. No longer your grandparent's database engine, SQL Server 2019 is cutting edge with support for Artificial Intelligence, (AI), machine learning (ML), big data performance and analysis, Java, and connections to Azure IOT Edge. This is not a book on traditional database administratio...

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No coverSQL Server Internals
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The SQL Server 2014 InMemory OLTP engine (a.k.a. Hekaton) is designed from the ground up to exploit terabytes of available memory and high numbers of processing cores. It allows us to work with memoryoptimized tables and indexes, and natively compiled stored procedures, in addition to the diskbased tables and indexes, and TSQL stored procedures...

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No coverJoe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers
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Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers, Second Edition, challenges you with his trickiest puzzles and then helps solve them with a variety of solutions and explanations.Author Joe Celko demonstrates the thought processes that are involved in attacking a problem from an SQL perspective to help advanced database programmers solve the puzzles you frequen...

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SQL Practice Problems
SQL Practice Problems

57 beginning, intermediate, and advanced challenges for you to solve using a ?learnbydoing? approach

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Realworld practice problems to bring your SQL skills to the next level It's easy to find basic SQL syntax and keyword information online. What's hard to find is challenging, welldesigned, realworld problems?the type of problems that come up all the time when you're dealing with data. Learning how to solve these problems will give you the skill a...

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SQL
SQL

Learn SQL (using MySQL) in One Day and Learn It Well. SQL for Beginners with Handson Project. (Learn Coding Fast with HandsOn Project)

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Learn SQL (using MySQL) Fast and Learn It Well. Master SQL Programming, with a unique HandsOn ProjectThe information era is upon us and the ability to organize and make sense of data has become an invaluable skill.Have you been hearing about data, databases and SQL and wondering what it's all about Or perhaps you have just gotten a new job and nee...

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Murach's SQL Server 2019 for Developers
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If you're an application developer, or you're training to be one, this latest edition of Murach's classic SQL Server book is made for you. To start, it presents the SQL statements that you need to retrieve and update the data in a database. These are the SQL statements that you'll use every day. Then, it shows you how to design a database, how to i...

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No coverSQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself
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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through the book's 22 lessons of 10 minutes or less, you'll learn what you need to know to take advantage of the SQL language. Lessons cover IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Express, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle and Oracle ex...

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No coverGetting Started with SQL
Getting Started with SQL

A HandsOn Approach for Beginners

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Businesses are gathering data today at exponential rates and yet few people know how to access it meaningfully. If you're a business or IT professional, this short handson guide teaches you how to pull and transform data with SQL in significant ways. You will quickly master the fundamentals of SQL and learn how to create your own databases.Author ...

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Head First SQL
Head First SQL

Your Brain on SQL A Learner's Guide

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Is your data dragging you down Are your tables all tangled up Well we've got the tools to teach you just how to wrangle your databases into submission. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory to craft a multisensory SQL learning experience, Head First SQL has a visually rich format designed for the way y...

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No coverJoe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties

Advanced SQL Programming, (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 20 years later and in its fifth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL mast...

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Microsoft SQL Server 2019
Microsoft SQL Server 2019

A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Get Up to Speed on Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 2019 Quickly and EasilyStart working with Microsoft SQL Server 2019 in no time with help from this thoroughly revise...

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MySQL Cookbook
MySQL Cookbook

Solutions for Database Developers and Administrators

Description

MySQL?s popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of workedout examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the ...

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MySQL Explained
MySQL Explained

Your Step By Step Guide to Database Design

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MySQL Explained is a stepbystep tutorial for everyone who's ready to learn about the database software most commonly used for storing information behind some of today's most popular websites and online applications. Written especially for people outside the Technology, field, MySQL Explained provides the background information you need to get fami...

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No coverSams Teach Yourself
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No coverSOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS USING SQL
SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS USING SQL

A DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS WHO WANT TO BE PROFICIENT IN DATABASE DESIGN AND WRITING SQL

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Are you getting ready for your new jobData analysis and presentation is one of the most indemand job skills right now. Knowing SQL syntaxes and applying them to the real world problems will give you advantage in your career.Whether you are going to start a new job, or you are a database administrator, developer of web or mobile applications, or y...

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No coverSQL Antipatterns
SQL Antipatterns

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming, (Pragmatic Programmers)

Description

Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. Now he's sharing his collection of antipatternsthe most common errors he's identified in those thousands of requests for help. Most developers aren't SQL experts, and most of the SQL that gets used is inefficient, hard to maintain, and sometimes j...

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SQL Cookbook
SQL Cookbook

Query Solutions and Techniques for Database Developers (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

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You know the rudiments of the SQL query language, yet you feel you aren't taking full advantage of SQL's expressive power. You'd like to learn how to do more work with SQL inside the database before pushing data across the network to your applications. You'd like to take your SQL skills to the next level.Let's face it, SQL is a deceptively simple l...

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SQL for Data Analytics
SQL for Data Analytics

Perform fast and efficient data analysis with the power of SQL

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Take your first steps to become a fully qualified data analyst by learning how to explore large relational datasets. Key Features Explore a variety of statistical techniques to analyze your data Integrate your SQL pipelines with other analytics technologies Perform advanced analytics such as geospatial and text analysis Book Description Understandi...

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No coverSQL Queries for Mere Mortals
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals

A HandsOn Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL

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SQL Queries for Mere Mortals
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals

A HandsOn Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL

Description

The #1 Easy, CommonSense Guide to SQL QueriesUpdated with More Advanced Techniques and SolutionsForeword by Keith W. Hare, Vice Chair, USA SQL Standards CommitteeSQL Queries for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective queries with the latest SQL standards and database applications. Now, au...

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No coverThe Art of SQL
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For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departments believe that developers should provide simple SQL code to solve immediate proble...

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