CHAPTER 9

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Just Enough SQL

Structured Query Language (SQL) was once thought of just for database administrators (DBAs) or dedicated database developers. In many organizations however, the DBA’s main purpose is support of production systems, and database development is left to the application team.

As mentioned below in Appendix A, a large organization will typically have separate regions for development, user testing, and production. The limitations of this arrangement are discussed further in the appendix, but in this section we assume the situation exists where the application developer also has the ability to both create and directly query the ...

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