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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

Documenting your code with markdown in your notebooks

Now that we’ve added some code to the notebook, it is time to add documentation to clarify or expand on what the code should do. This is done using the markdown language, or MD. As you saw with the README file, we can create entire documents using markdown to supplement our documentation.

In this section, we are going to explore markdown and use it to add documentation directly into our notebook to support the SQL we have created.

Adding a text block to your notebook

Adding text to your notebook is straightforward. Simply click the + Cell button and choose Text cell. This will create a new cell that is formatted for markdown and has several formatting buttons included with it to make code presentation easier.

You can also add text blocks by clicking the + Cell button underneath the current cell you are in. This is helpful when adding cells in between the cells you have already created.

In the next few sections...

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