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Learning Couchbase
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Learning Couchbase

by Henry Potsangbam
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
5h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7. Understanding SQL-Like Queries – N1QL

In the previous chapter, you learned how to fetch documents using the MapReduce functionalities of views. Therein, you need to create a view before querying for any documents when not using a document ID. Couchbase has developed an efficient way of retrieving documents using a SQL-like syntax, called N1QL. N1QL is simpler and easier to understand. The syntax is more or less like that of SQL, so developers who are from RDBMS's SQL background will find themselves very much at home.

This method makes it easier to retrieve information from Couchbase. The main difference between SQL and N1QL (pronounced as Nickel) is that N1QL provides a way to query the JSON based document-oriented database, Couchbase. ...

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