Chapter 1. The Basics
This chapter presents lots of basic recipes to get you started—or rekindle old memories—on the core building blocks of SQL statements. We'll show you recipes for selecting, changing, and removing data from Oracle database tables, plus some common options you usually want to include when doing this kind of work.
Those of you with a firm grounding in SQL should feel free to delve into this chapter in an à la carte fashion. We've included one or two clever recipes at this early stage to make sure you get the most from Oracle SQL Recipes from the very first chapter. To continue the menu metaphor, feel free to consume the recipes herein in any order you like, and mix and match code fragments and techniques across the chapters to ...
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