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Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL
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Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL

by Joe Celko
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 1m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL

8.5. Data Mining for Auxiliary Tables

We do not always know what values we want to add to a lookup table. Very often, we need to do some data mining in our historical data to discover rules we did not know.

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