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This book gives you a way to learn SQL fast. Its a one-stop course to take readers from beginner-level, to a level where they can comfortably use SQL to retrieve, and analyze, data.
First, this book guides you through getting, and setting up, free SQL Server software, and a free database, directly from Microsoft. Next, it introduces SQL in bite-size examples, explaining the principles behind each new concept. At each stage, it provides practice exercises so you can try out what you learn, as you go. As the course progresses, the examples and exercises show how to combine the basic concepts to write more advanced queries.
Hhis book is written for those who want to learn SQL as well as they can, as fast as they can. Its for people who want to learn how to use SQL and learn the principles behind it too.
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Learn SQL Fast
A query writing course you can read on the train, based onsoftware you can download for free
Copyright 2016 by D Armstrong
While the advice and information in this book are believedto be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the author nor thepublisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions thatmay be made. The publisher and author makes no warranty, express or implied,with respect to the material contained herein.
SQL Structured Query Language is a widely used languagefor working with data. All organizations have data, and they typically storeat least some of it in a database.
SQL is the language of databases: learning it allows you touse them effectively.
SQL allows you to view data, analyse it, and performcalculations with it. With SQL, you can change the data stored in a database,or change the way the database itself works. SQL also lets you make rulesabout how data may be changed and who by.
This book covers the most common use of SQL: getting dataout of databases. It shows you how you to view, analyse, and report on data, whichis the first step to becoming a confident SQL user, because it is the skillthat lets you see what you are working with.
There are many database technologies: Microsoft SQL Server,MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access, and so on. Each has its own version of SQL. However, unlike programming languages, they are all very similar.
SQL skills in one technology, such Microsoft SQL Server, canbe quickly and easily applied to another, e.g. MySQL. Learning SQL once allowsyou to use it many times.
This book is designed to make learning SQL as straightforwardas possible. It is a concise, step-by-step course, written inplain English, with a focus on using what you learn. It gives examples of SQL(known as "queries") which you can run on your home computer, and explainshow they work. After that, this book gives practice exercises, so that you cantry out what you learn, before moving on. Later chapters show how to combinethe basics to write more advanced queries.
When a new technical term is introduced, this course willgive a definition, or plain-English equivalent, at that point.
The software needed to practice SQL will run on a home PC orlaptop and is freely available online. This book will guide you throughdownloading and installing the correct version for your machine.
Let's get started.
The examples and exercises in this book use Microsofttechnologies, although as mentioned earlier, once you have learned SQL with onetechnology it is easily transferable to another. The book also assumes yourcomputer has Microsoft Windows already installed.
You will need two pieces of software: SQL Server itself andSQL Server Management Studio (SMSS). Microsoft provides both online for free,as a single package to download and install.
SQL Server is the software that handles any SQL queries yourun, but it doesn't actually display the results of queries, or appear onscreen at all. SMSS is the software you will actually see: the user-interface. This is where you type any queries you want to try out, and it is what displaysthe results.
Microsoft offers several different "editions" ofSQL Server online. SQL Server Express is the free one, and the one thisbook is based on.
Within the Express edition, Microsoft also offers severaldifferent download "packages", e.g. advanced, with tools, etc. SQLServer Express with Advanced Services includes SMSS, which you willneed, and is the one this book is based on.
You can download a free version of the above fromMicrosoft's website, by clicking the download link on the web page below (ifyou Google "download SQL Server", this page should appear near thetop of your results):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-editions/sql-server-express.aspx
When you click the link, Microsoft's site will prompt you tosign-in or register for an account. Once you have done this, it will providea choice of SQL Server Express packages to download.
If you sign up for a new Microsoft account and it doesn'ttake you directly to the download options afterwards, go back to the web pageabove, click the download link again, and sign in with your newly registeredaccount details. You will then be on the correct page to choose you downloadpackage.
You will notice that the name of the package you need (SQLServer Express with Advanced Services) appears twice, once for 64-bit systemsand again for 32-bit systems. You need to download the one which matches yoursystem. To check whether your system is 64-bit or 32-bit, you can use any ofthe methods below. They are listed in order: fastest first. If your computer doesnot support one method, you can simply use the next one.
Go to "search" on your computer. Type "system". Press return. The system window will appear. In the system window, look downthe listed information to find the system type. This will state if thecomputer is 64-bit or 32-bit. If you see "86", e.g. "x86 basedprocessor", then this means the processor is 32-bit.
Open Windows Explorer, i.e. open any folder, such as"My Documents", on your computer. In the folder window which appears,on the left, you should see an option called "My Computer", or"This PC", or something very similar. Right-click on thisoption and a menu will appear. Click the "Properties" option on thismenu and a new window will appear. In this window, look down the listedinformation to find the system type. This will state if the computer is 64-bitor 32-bit. If you see "86", e.g. "x86 based processor",then this means the processor is 32-bit.
Go to "search" on your computer. Type "cmd"and press return. The "command prompt" (a black window) willappear. In the command prompt, type "systeminfo", and press return. This will fill the command window with more information than fits on the screen. Scroll back up to top of the command window and read down until you find amention of "64-bit" or "x64", this will be recorded next to"system type:" or similar. If you don't see that, do the samechecks, but look for "32" or "86" in place of"64", i.e. look for "x86" and "32-bit". If youfind any of these, then your computer is 32-bit.
Once you have selected a package, click on the"Continue" button at the bottom of the page. This will take you to apage which starts the download. The download is a folder, not just one file.
If your browser gives you the option to save the download,save it anywhere you like, as long as you know where it is. For example, saveit to your desktop for easy access to the download.
If you don't get the choice of where to save, it will almostcertainly be downloaded to your computer's downloads folder, typically"C:\Users\(your username here)\Downloads".
The download may take some time, but it will continue byitself, so at this point you can leave the process to finish itself.
Open the folder that you just downloaded, and you will see afile called "SETUP". Double
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