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(324: Review I for Database Management) (by Liping Liu) Concepts:
Databases
DBMS
Logical Data Models
Hierarchical Models
Network Models
Relational Models
Primary key
Foreign Key
Referential Integrity Rules
Entities
Relationships
Mapping Cardinality
Optionality
Attributes
Composite Attributes
Multi-valued Attributes
Relations
Relational Models
Recursive Relationships
Weak Entities
Super and Sub Entities
Gerund
SQL
Constraints
Oracle Meta Tables
Oracle Data Types
Skills and Techniques:
Conceptual Data Modeling (Entity-Relationship Diagramming) from the understanding of business objects and their relationships or from forms, reports, tables, and other data carrier to understand data requirements... more >>
(641 Week 7 Outline) (by Liping Liu) Warm-Up Queries:
Find the employment year of each employee
Find the departments in Dallas
Find the salesmen who were hired after 1980
--Find menagers whose name ends with M
select enamefrom empwhere job = 'MANAGER' and ename like '%M';
--Give salesman 100 commission
update empset comm = comm + 100where job = 'SALESMAN';
--handle missing values
upate empset comm = 0where comm is null;
select 12*sal + commfrom empgroup by empno;
--use nvl(comm, 0)
update empset comm = nvl(comm, 0) + 100where job = 'SALESMAN';
Lecture 1: Intermediate SQL Programming: Join
implicit join (outer and inner), Explicit Join: inner join, left join, right join, full outer join (or cross join)
Find all the employees located in Dallas
Find all employees and their associated departments
Find all departments and their associated employees
Explicit Joins
Just like + operation in arithmetics to combine two tables, may be used in parentheses for nested combination of more than two tables
Syntax: TableA join TableB on (criterion to join)
three explicit Join types: left, right, inner
Equivalent to implicit joins (e... more >>
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