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Learning Snowflake SQL and Scripting
2023-10-03
Alan Beaulieu
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To help you on the path to becoming a Snowflake pro, this concise yet comprehensive guide reviews fundamentals and best practices for Snowflake's SQL and Scripting languages. Developers and data professionals will learn how to generate, modify, and query data in the Snowflake relational database management system as well as how to apply analytic functions for reporting. Author Alan Beaulieu also shows you how to create scripts, stored functions, and stored procedures to return data sets using Snowflake Scripting. This book is ideal whether you're new to databases and need to run queries or reports against a Snowflake database, or transitioning from databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL to cloud-based platforms. With this book, you will: Generate and modify Snowflake data using INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE Query data in Snowflake using SELECT, including joining multiple tables, using subqueries, and grouping Apply analytic functions for performing subtotals, grand totals, row comparisons, and other reporting functionality Build scripts combining SQL statements with looping, if-then-else, and exception handling Learn how to build stored procedures and functions Use stored procedures to return data sets |
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Learning SQL, 3rd Edition
2020-03-13
Alan Beaulieu
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As data floods into your company, you need to put it to work right away—and SQL is the best tool for the job. With the latest edition of this introductory guide, author Alan Beaulieu helps developers get up to speed with SQL fundamentals for writing database applications, performing administrative tasks, and generating reports. You’ll find new chapters on SQL and big data, analytic functions, and working with very large databases. Each chapter presents a self-contained lesson on a key SQL concept or technique using numerous illustrations and annotated examples. Exercises let you practice the skills you learn. Knowledge of SQL is a must for interacting with data. With Learning SQL, you’ll quickly discover how to put the power and flexibility of this language to work. Move quickly through SQL basics and several advanced features Use SQL data statements to generate, manipulate, and retrieve data Create database objects, such as tables, indexes, and constraints with SQL schema statements Learn how datasets interact with queries; understand the importance of subqueries Convert and manipulate data with SQL’s built-in functions and use conditional logic in data statements |
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