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Chapter: Fundamentals of Database Systems : The Relational Data Model and SQL : More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification

More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification

This chapter describes more advanced features of the SQL language standard for relational databases.

Chapter 5

More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification

 

 

This chapter describes more advanced features of the SQL language standard for relational databases. We start in Section 5.1 by presenting more complex features of SQL retrieval queries, such as nested queries, joined tables, outer joins, aggregate functions, and grouping. In Section 5.2, we describe the CREATE ASSERTION statement, which allows the specification of more general constraints on the database. We also introduce the concept of triggers and the CREATE TRIGGER statement, which will be presented in more detail in Section 26.1 when we present the principles of active databases. Then, in Section 5.3, we describe the SQL facility for defining views on the database. Views are also called virtual or derived tables because they present the user with what appear to be tables; however, the information in those tables is derived from previously defined tables. Section 5.4 introduces the SQL ALTER TABLE statement, which is used for modifying the database tables and constraints. Section 5.5 is the chapter summary.

 

This chapter is a continuation of Chapter 4. The instructor may skip parts of this chapter if a less detailed introduction to SQL is intended.

 

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