You may know SQL basics, but are you taking advantage of its expressive power? The new edition of this cookbook applies a highly practical approach to Structured Query Language (SQL) so you can create and manipulate large stores of data. Based on real-world examples, this updated book provides a framework to help you construct solutions and executable examples in several flavors of SQL--including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

SQL programmers, analysts, data scientists, database administrators (DBAs)--and even relatively casual SQL users--will find SQL Cookbook to be a valuable problem-solving guide for everyday issues. No other resource offers recipes in this unique format to help you tackle nagging day-to-day conundrums with SQL.

The second edition includes:

• Fully revised recipes that recognize the greater adoption of window functions in various SQL implementations
• Additional recipes to take advantage of the widespread adoption of common table expressions for more readable, easier to implement solutions
• Brand-new recipes to make SQL more useful for people, such as data scientists, who aren't database experts
• Up-to-date SQL recipes throughout the book that cover the basics