Sams Teach Yourself SQL in One Hour a Day, Fifth Edition
by Ryan Stephens, Ron Plew, Arie D. Jones
LESSON 13Creating Views
In this lesson we begin to cover a topic that might be new even to programmers or database users who have already had some exposure to SQL. Lessons 1 through 8 covered nearly all the introductory material you need to get started using SQL and relational databases. Lesson 9, “Creating and Maintaining Tables,” was devoted to a discussion of database design, table creation, and other data-manipulation commands. The common feature of the objects discussed so far—databases, tables, records, and fields—is that they are all physical objects that are ultimately located in a data file on a hard disk. In this lesson, the focus shifts to a feature of SQL that provides you with more flexibility as a programmer. This feature is the ...
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