Introduction

Now that we have covered the core topics of SQL database design and development, we can focus on more complex problems that reach past the material we looked at in earlier chapters. Building on what we've learned, we'll look at more SQL topics and tools and how to expand our existing skills to cover new situations. SQL database products offer huge feature spaces to developers—much bigger than what we have seen so far. Developers can lever these features to efficiently add value and solve problems. In this chapter, we'll explore a small sample of these feature spaces to get a sense of the potential of SQL database products and how to approach them as new tools to solve new problems.