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Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples
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Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples

by Raul F. Chong, Clara Liu, Sylvia F. Qi, Dwaine R. Snow
January 2005
Beginner to intermediate
928 pages
22h 14m
English
IBM Press
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9.8. Summary

This chapter shows the power of SQL statements to manipulate the database data, including the SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. In the SQL statements, you can use the DB2 special registers to obtain information about the environment such as the current date and current user connected to the database.

Besides the basic SQL statements to manipulate data, you can also use column and scalar functions, cast expressions, WHERE clauses, ORDER BY clauses, GROUP BY clauses, FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY options, and many other features to customize the result that you want to obtain.

It is very common that data requested is from more than one table. Inner and outer joins are used to combine data from two or more tables in a SELECT ...

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