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SQL for Data Analytics - Fourth Edition
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SQL for Data Analytics - Fourth Edition

by Jun Shan, Haibin Li, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston
November 2025
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
7h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to Data Management Systems

Data collection and analysis is an old practice dating back to the beginning of civilization. Records from ancient Egyptian papyrus suggest that pharaohs collected census information from villages, possibly to determine the number of soldiers that could be enlisted for war. Local authorities would collect the census and send it to the pharaoh’s court, where the data would be analyzed to determine the possible size of the army. The same process has been repeated thousands of times in the years since then. However, it was after the arrival of modern computers that the art of data analytics became a significant phenomenon that is changing people’s lives every day.

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