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SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices A practical guide to writing readable and maintainable SQL queries using its design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633289
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chi Zhang Chi Zhang
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Steven Hughes Steven Hughes
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Shabbir Mala Shabbir Mala
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Dennis Neer Dennis Neer
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Refining Your Queries to Get the Results You Need
2. Chapter 1: Reducing Rows and Columns in Your Result Sets FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Efficiently Aggregating Data 4. Chapter 3: Formatting Your Results for Easier Consumption 5. Chapter 4: Manipulating Data Results Using Conditional SQL 6. Part 2: Solving Complex Business and Data Problems in Your Queries
7. Chapter 5: Using Common Table Expressions 8. Chapter 6: Analyze Your Data Using Window Functions 9. Chapter 7: Reshaping Data with Advanced Techniques 10. Chapter 8: Impact of SQL Server Security on Query Results 11. Part 3: Optimizing Your Queries to Improve Performance
12. Chapter 9: Understanding Query Plans 13. Chapter 10: Understanding the Impact of Indexes on Query Design 14. Part 4: Working with Your Data on the Modern Data Platform
15. Chapter 11: Handling JSON Data in SQL Server 16. Chapter 12: Integrating File Data and Data Lake Content with SQL 17. Chapter 13: Organizing and Sharing Your Queries with Jupyter Notebooks 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Preparing Your Environment

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

Access Control List (ACL) 196

actual execution plan 125

ALTER index statement 148

AVG() function 22

Azure Data Studio

Jupyter notebooks, creating 206

notebooks 206

reference link 227

Azure environment

Azure SQL Server, creating 230-234

database, restoring 230-234

setting up 228

subscription and resource group, creating 229

Azure SQL Database 228

C

CASE expression

searched version, using in SELECT statement 47

simple version, using in SELECT statement 46

using 46

using, in HAVING statement 52-55

using, in ORDER BY statement 47-50

using, in UPDATE statement 50, 51

CAST() function

used, for formatting dates 38

used, for formatting numbers 39, 40

versus CONVERT() function 42

versus FORMAT() function 42

CEILING() function...

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