John J. Patrick eBooks

SQL for the Real World Don't just learn 'generic' SQL. Learn SQL to get results with the world's top database platformsOracle for the enterprise and Microsoft Access for the desktop. Based on John Patrick's hands-on SQL course at the University of California, Berkeley Extension, this book shows exactly how to retrieve the data you want, when you need it, in any applicationfrom ad hoc reports to the data warehouse. Thoroughly updated for the newest versions of Oracle, Access, and the SQL standard, this book contains more exercises, techniques, and solutions than ever before. You'll learn exactly how to write SQL queries that are easy to understand, ve...