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The SQL Workshop
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The SQL Workshop

by Frank Solomon, Rakesh Kumar Pandey, Shubham Jain, Prashanth Jayaram, Awni Al Saqqa, Fiodar Sazanavets, Aaditya Pokkunuri, Shashikant Shakya, Dixit Patel, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Scott Cosentino
December 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
288 pages
4h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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1. SQL Basics

Overview

This chapter covers the very basic concepts of SQL that will get you started with writing simple commands. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to identify the difference between structured and unstructured data, explain the basic SQL concepts, create tables using the CREATE statement, and insert values into tables using SQL commands.

Introduction

The vast majority of companies today work with large amounts of data. This could be product information, customer data, client details, employee data, and so on. Most people who are new to working with data will do so using spreadsheets. Software such as Microsoft Excel has many tools for manipulating and analyzing data, but as the volume and complexity of the data ...

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