Getting Started with SQL and Databases: Managing and Manipulating Data with SQL

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M. SimonGetting Started with SQL and Databaseshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9493-2_1

1. Starting with SQL

Mark Simon¹  

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Ivanhoe VIC, VIC, Australia

 

If you’re new to database in general, and to SQL in particular, it can be a little daunting at first. In this chapter, we’ll have a taste of SQL by looking at how we fetch data from a simple table.

In principle, you can choose to manage your data any way you want, and some people do just that in spreadsheets or even in word processors. For serious data, that’s not organized enough, so we rely on something more structured.

There is no one way to organize data, and not all data can be organized in the same ...