November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1136 pages
26h 7m
English
• DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE
• RETRIEVING DATA
• INSERTING DATA
• UPDATING DATA
• DELETING DATA
• MERGING DATA
• VIEW CLASSIFICATION
In the previous chapter, we discussed the definition of various database objects using the Data Definition Language (DDL). In this chapter, we start manipulating database objects using the part of SQL known as Data Manipulation Language (DML). We will be populating (inserting) data into the database and retrieving the data using many powerful methods. The majority of the SQL statements within a DB2 application involve DML statements. Therefore, application developers must understand the various methods of inserting, updating, and retrieving data from the database. We will ...
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