Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days, Fourth Edition

What's New in the Latest Edition

We have improved the fourth edition of this book by

• Integrating MySQL hands-on exercises whenever possible in order to enhance your understanding

• Adding new code examples to provoke increased understanding

• Adding a discussion of SQL and Java interaction with a database using the JDBC driver

• Adding an appendix packed with MySQL bonus exercises to provide you further practice with SQL

Several new topics were added to the third edition of this book and are still included here:

• Normalizing database tables

• Using integrity constraints in SQL

• Understanding dates and time in SQL

• Using views to summarize data from a SQL database

• Understanding the concepts behind new objects in the emerging new SQL standard

• Improving your understanding ...