Advanced Techniques for Advanced Databases

This chapter covers advanced techniques for working with databases, including indexing, views, stored procedures, user-defined functions (UDFs), and common table expressions (CTEs).

First, we’ll look at indexing, a technique that’s used to speed up database queries by creating an index on one or more columns of a table. We’ll explain different types of indexes and provide best practices for creating and maintaining them. This knowledge can help developers improve the performance of their database applications.

Then, we’ll cover views, customized virtual tables that are created from one or more tables in a database. We’ll explain how to create views and provide examples of how they can simplify complex queries and deliver a more user-friendly interface to the data. By learning how to use views effectively, developers can make their database applications more accessible to end-users.

After that, we...