In this module, I will be updating the topic wise SQL tutorial notes which is very useful for a fresher to start with MYSQL from basics

• SQL stands for Structured Query Language.
• This tutorial will give you a quick start to SQL.
• It covers most of the topics required for a basic understanding of SQL and to get a feel of how it works.

1970 − Dr. Edgar F. "Ted" Codd of IBM is known as the father of relational databases. He described a relational model for databases.

1974 − Structured Query Language appeared.

1978 − IBM worked to develop Codd's ideas and released a product named System/R.

1986 − IBM developed the first prototype of relational database and standardized by ANSI. The first relational database was released by Relational Software which later came to be known as Oracle.

• SQL is the standard language for Relational Database System.
• All the Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) like MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Postgres and SQL Server use SQL as their standard database language.

Also, they are using different dialects, such as −

1) High Performance

2) High Availability

3) Database mirroring

4) Database snapshots

5) CLR integration

6) Service Broker

7) DDL triggers

8) Ranking functions

9) Row version-based isolation levels

10) XML integration

11) TRY...CATCH

12) Database Mail

• SQL is one of the most widely used query language over the databases.
• I'm going to list few of them here:

• When you are executing an SQL command for any RDBMS, the system determines the best way to carry out your request and SQL engine figures out how to interpret the task.
• There are various components included in this process. These components are −

1) Query Dispatcher

2) Optimization Engines

3) Classic Query Engine

4) SQL Query Engine, etc.

5) A classic query engine handles all the non-SQL queries, but a SQL query engine won't handle logical files.

• The standard SQL commands to interact with relational databases are CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and DROP.
• These commands can be classified into the following groups based on their nature −

• Creates a new table, a view of a table, or other object in the database.

• Modifies an existing database object, such as a table.

• Deletes an entire table, a view of a table or other objects in the database.

• Creates a record.

= Modifies records.

• Deletes records.

• Gives a privilege to user.

• Takes back privileges granted from user.

• Save all the transactions to the database.

• Undo transactions that have not already been saved to the database.

• Roll the transaction back to a certain point without rolling back the entire transaction.

• select the attribute based on the condition described by WHERE clause.

• RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System.
• RDBMS is the basis for SQL, and for all modern database systems like MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Access.
• A Relational database management system (RDBMS) is a database management system (DBMS) that is based on the relational model as introduced by E. F. Codd.

• The data in an RDBMS is stored in database objects which are called as tables.
• This table is basically a collection of related data entries and it consists of numerous columns and rows.

• Every table is broken up into smaller entities called fields.
• The fields in the CUSTOMERS table consist of ID, NAME, AGE, ADDRESS and SALARY.
• A field is a column in a table that is designed to maintain specific information about every record in the table.

• A record is also called as a row of data is each individual entry that exists in a table.

• A column is a vertical entity in a table that contains all information associated with a specific field in a table.

• A NULL value in a table is a value in a field that appears to be blank, which means a field with a NULL value is a field with no value.
• It is very important to understand that a NULL value is different than a zero value or a field that contains spaces.
• A field with a NULL value is the one that has been left blank during a record creation.

• Constraints are the rules enforced on data columns on a table.
• These are used to limit the type of data that can go into a table.
• This ensures the accuracy and reliability of the data in the database.
• Constraints can either be column level or table level.
• Column level constraints are applied only to one column whereas, table level constraints are applied to the entire table.

Following are some of the most commonly used constraints available in SQL −

− Ensures that a column cannot have a NULL value.

− Provides a default value for a column when none is specified.

− Ensures that all the values in a column are different.

− Uniquely identifies each row/record in a database table.

− Uniquely identifies a row/record in any another database table.

− The CHECK constraint ensures that all values in a column satisfy certain conditions.

− Used to create and retrieve data from the database very quickly.

• The following categories of data integrity exist with each RDBMS −

Entity Integrity − There are no duplicate rows in a table.

Domain Integrity − Enforces valid entries for a given column by restricting the type, the format, or the range of values.

Referential integrity − Rows cannot be deleted, which are used by other records.

User-Defined Integrity − Enforces some specific business rules that do not fall into entity, domain or referential integrity.

• Database normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database.
• There are two reasons of this normalization process −

1) Eliminating redundant data, for example, storing the same data in more than one table.

2) Ensuring data dependencies make sense.

• Both these reasons are worthy goals as they reduce the amount of space a database consumes and ensures that data is logically stored.

• Normalization consists of a series of guidelines that help guide you in creating a good database structure.

• Normalization guidelines are divided into normal forms; think of a form as the format or the way a database structure is laid out.

• The aim of normal forms is to organize the database structure, so that it complies with the rules of first normal form, then second normal form and finally the third normal form.

• It is your choice to take it further and go to the fourth normal form, fifth normal form and so on, but in general, the third normal form is more than enough.

First Normal Form (1NF) Second Normal Form (2NF) Third Normal Form (3NF)

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name;

SELECT DISTINCT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name;

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name
WHERE  CONDITION;

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name
WHERE  CONDITION-1 {AND|OR} CONDITION-2;

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name
WHERE  column_name IN (val-1, val-2,...val-N);

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name
WHERE  column_name BETWEEN val-1 AND val-2;

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name
WHERE  column_name LIKE { PATTERN };

SELECT column1, column2....columnN
FROM   table_name
WHERE  CONDITION
ORDER BY column_name {ASC|DESC};

SELECT SUM(column_name)
FROM   table_name
WHERE  CONDITION
GROUP BY column_name;

SELECT COUNT(column_name)
FROM   table_name
WHERE  CONDITION;

SELECT SUM(column_name)
FROM   table_name
WHERE  CONDITION
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING (arithematic function condition);

CREATE TABLE table_name(
    column1 datatype,
    column2 datatype,
    column3 datatype,
    .....
    columnN datatype,
    PRIMARY KEY( one or more columns )
);

DROP TABLE table_name;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name
ON table_name ( column1, column2,...columnN);

ALTER TABLE table_name
DROP INDEX index_name;

DESC table_name;

TRUNCATE TABLE table_name;

ALTER TABLE table_name {ADD|DROP|MODIFY} column_name {data_ype};

ALTER TABLE table_name RENAME TO new_table_name;

INSERT INTO table_name( column1, column2....columnN)
VALUES ( value1, value2....valueN);

UPDATE table_name
SET column1 = value1, column2 = value2....columnN=valueN
[ WHERE  CONDITION ];

DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE  {CONDITION};

CREATE DATABASE database_name;

DROP DATABASE database_name;

USE database_name;

COMMIT;

ROLLBACK;

• SQL Data Type is an attribute that specifies the type of data of any object.
• Each column, variable and expression has a related data type in SQL.
• You can use these data types while creating your tables.
• You can choose a data type for a table column based on your requirement.
• SQL Server offers six categories of data types for your use which are listed below −

• An operator is a reserved word or a character used primarily in an SQL statement's WHERE clause to perform operation(s), such as comparisons and arithmetic operations.
• These Operators are used to specify conditions in an SQL statement and to serve as conjunctions for multiple conditions in a statement.

- Arithmetic operators

- Comparison operators

- Logical operators

- Operators used to negate conditions

• Adds values on either side of the operator.

• Subtracts right hand operand from left hand operand.

• Multiplies values on either side of the operator.

• Divides left hand operand by right hand operand.

• Divides left hand operand by right hand operand and returns remainder.

• Checks if the values of two operands are equal or not, if yes then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the values of two operands are equal or not, if values are not equal then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the values of two operands are equal or not, if values are not equal then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the value of left operand is greater than the value of right operand, if yes then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the value of left operand is less than the value of right operand, if yes then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the value of left operand is greater than or equal to the value of right operand, if yes then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the value of left operand is less than or equal to the value of right operand, if yes then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the value of left operand is not less than the value of right operand, if yes then condition becomes true.

• Checks if the value of left operand is not greater than the value of right operand, if yes then condition becomes true.

• The ALL operator is used to compare a value to all values in another value set.

• The AND operator allows the existence of multiple conditions in an SQL statement's WHERE clause.

• The ANY operator is used to compare a value to any applicable value in the list as per the condition.

• The BETWEEN operator is used to search for values that are within a set of values, given the minimum value and the maximum value.

• The EXISTS operator is used to search for the presence of a row in a specified table that meets a certain criterion.

• The IN operator is used to compare a value to a list of literal values that have been specified.

• The LIKE operator is used to compare a value to similar values using wildcard operators.

• The NOT operator reverses the meaning of the logical operator with which it is used. Eg: NOT EXISTS, NOT BETWEEN, NOT IN, etc. This is a negate operator.

• The OR operator is used to combine multiple conditions in an SQL statement's WHERE clause.

• The NULL operator is used to compare a value with a NULL value.

• The UNIQUE operator searches every row of a specified table for uniqueness (no duplicates).

• SQL EXPRESSIONs are like formulae and they are written in query language. You can also use them to query the database for a specific set of data.

  SELECT column1, column2, columnN 
  FROM table_name 
  WHERE [CONDITION|EXPRESSION];
  

• There are different types of SQL expressions, which are mentioned below −

1) Boolean

2) Numeric

3) Date

SELECT column1, column2, columnN 
FROM table_name 
WHERE SINGLE VALUE MATCHING EXPRESSION;

SELECT numerical_expression as  OPERATION_NAME
[FROM table_name
WHERE CONDITION] ;

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

SELECT  GETDATE();

• The SQL Joins clause is used to combine records from two or more tables in a database.
• A JOIN is a means for combining fields from two tables by using values common to each.
• It is noticeable that the join is performed in the WHERE clause.
• Several operators can be used to join tables, such as =, <, >, <>, <=, >=, !=, BETWEEN, LIKE, and NOT; they can all be used to join tables.
• However, the most common operator is the equal to symbol.

There are different types of joins available in SQL −

1) INNER JOIN − returns rows when there is a match in both tables.

2) LEFT JOIN − returns all rows from the left table, even if there are no matches in the right table.

3) RIGHT JOIN − returns all rows from the right table, even if there are no matches in the left table.

4) FULL JOIN − returns rows when there is a match in one of the tables.

5) SELF JOIN − is used to join a table to itself as if the table were two tables, temporarily renaming at least one table in the SQL statement.

6) CARTESIAN JOIN − returns the Cartesian product of the sets of records from the two or more joined tables.

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,....
FROM table1 
INNER JOIN table2
ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column;


table1: First table.
table2: Second table
matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,....
FROM table1 
LEFT JOIN table2
ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column;


table1: First table.
table2: Second table
matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,....
FROM table1 
RIGHT JOIN table2
ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column;


table1: First table.
table2: Second table
matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,....
FROM table1 
FULL JOIN table2
ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column;


table1: First table.
table2: Second table
matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

SELECT a.coulmn1 , b.column2
FROM table_name a, table_name b
WHERE some_condition;

table_name: Name of the table.
some_condition: Condition for selecting the rows.

SELECT table1.column1 , table1.column2, table2.column1...
FROM table1
CROSS JOIN table2;


table1: First table.
table2: Second table

• The SQL UNION clause/operator is used to combine the results of two or more SELECT statements without returning any duplicate rows.
• To use this UNION clause, each SELECT statement must have

- The same number of columns selected

- The same number of column expressions

- The same data type and have them in the same order

SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]
UNION
SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]

SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]
UNION ALL
SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]

SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]
INTERSECT
SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]

SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]
EXCEPT
SELECT column1 [, column2 ]
FROM table1 [, table2 ]
[WHERE condition]

• SQL NULL is the term used to represent a missing value.

• A NULL value in a table is a value in a field that appears to be blank.

• A field with a NULL value is a field with no value.

• It is very important to understand that a NULL value is different than a zero value or a field that contains spaces.

  CREATE TABLE CUSTOMERS(
      ID   INT              NOT NULL,
      NAME VARCHAR (20)     NOT NULL,
      AGE  INT              NOT NULL,
      ADDRESS  CHAR (25) ,
      SALARY   DECIMAL (18, 2),       
      PRIMARY KEY (ID)
  );
  

• The use of table aliases is to rename a table in a specific SQL statement.

• The renaming is a temporary change and the actual table name does not change in the database.

• The column aliases are used to rename a table's columns for the purpose of a particular SQL query.

  SELECT column1, column2....
  FROM table_name AS alias_name
  WHERE [condition];
  

• Indexes are special lookup tables that the database search engine can use to speed up data retrieval.
• Simply put, an index is a pointer to data in a table.
• An index in a database is very similar to an index in the back of a book.

The following guidelines indicate when the use of an index should be reconsidered.

- Indexes should not be used on small tables.

- Tables that have frequent, large batch updates or insert operations.

- Indexes should not be used on columns that contain a high number of NULL values.

- Columns that are frequently manipulated should not be indexed.

CREATE INDEX index_name ON table_name;

• A single-column index is created based on only one table column.

  CREATE INDEX index_name
  ON table_name (column_name);
  

• Unique indexes are used not only for performance, but also for data integrity.

• A unique index does not allow any duplicate values to be inserted into the table.

  CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name
  on table_name (column_name);
  

• A composite index is an index on two or more columns of a table.

  CREATE INDEX index_name
  on table_name (column1, column2);
  

• Implicit indexes are indexes that are automatically created by the database server when an object is created.
• Indexes are automatically created for primary key constraints and unique constraints.

DROP INDEX index_name;

• The SQL ALTER TABLE command is used to add, delete or modify columns in an existing table.
• You should also use the ALTER TABLE command to add and drop various constraints on an existing table.

ALTER TABLE table_name ADD column_name datatype;

ALTER TABLE table_name DROP COLUMN column_name;

ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY COLUMN column_name datatype;

ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY column_name datatype NOT NULL;

ALTER TABLE table_name 
ADD CONSTRAINT MyUniqueConstraint UNIQUE(column1, column2...);

ALTER TABLE table_name 
ADD CONSTRAINT MyUniqueConstraint CHECK (CONDITION);

ALTER TABLE table_name 
ADD CONSTRAINT MyPrimaryKey PRIMARY KEY (column1, column2...);

ALTER TABLE table_name 
DROP CONSTRAINT MyUniqueConstraint;

ALTER TABLE table_name 
DROP INDEX MyUniqueConstraint;

ALTER TABLE table_name 
DROP CONSTRAINT MyPrimaryKey;

ALTER TABLE table_name 
DROP PRIMARY KEY;

• The SQL TRUNCATE TABLE command is used to delete complete data from an existing table.

• You can also use DROP TABLE command to delete complete table but it would remove complete table structure form the database and you would need to re-create this table once again if you wish you store some data.

  TRUNCATE TABLE  table_name;
  

• A view is nothing more than a SQL statement that is stored in the database with an associated name.
• A view is actually a composition of a table in the form of a predefined SQL query.
• A view can contain all rows of a table or select rows from a table.
• A view can be created from one or many tables which depends on the written SQL query to create a view.

Views, which are a type of virtual tables allow users to do the following −

- Structure data in a way that users or classes of users find natural or intuitive.

- Restrict access to the data in such a way that a user can see and (sometimes) modify exactly what they need and no more.

- Summarize data from various tables which can be used to generate reports.

CREATE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT column1, column2.....
FROM table_name
WHERE [condition];

• The WITH CHECK OPTION is a CREATE VIEW statement option.

• The purpose of the WITH CHECK OPTION is to ensure that all UPDATE and INSERTs satisfy the condition(s) in the view definition.

• If they do not satisfy the condition(s), the UPDATE or INSERT returns an error.

  CREATE VIEW CUSTOMERS_VIEW AS
  SELECT name, age
  FROM  CUSTOMERS
  WHERE age IS NOT NULL
  WITH CHECK OPTION;  
  

A view can be updated under certain conditions which are given below −

- The SELECT clause may not contain the keyword DISTINCT.

- The SELECT clause may not contain summary functions.

- The SELECT clause may not contain set functions.

- The SELECT clause may not contain set operators.

- The SELECT clause may not contain an ORDER BY clause.

- The FROM clause may not contain multiple tables.

- The WHERE clause may not contain subqueries.

- The query may not contain GROUP BY or HAVING.

- Calculated columns may not be updated.

- All NOT NULL columns from the base table must be included in the view in order for the INSERT query to function.

• Rows of data can be inserted into a view.
• The same rules that apply to the UPDATE command also apply to the INSERT command.

• Rows of data can be deleted from a view.
• The same rules that apply to the UPDATE and INSERT commands apply to the DELETE command.

DROP VIEW view_name;

• The HAVING Clause enables you to specify conditions that filter which group results appear in the results.

• The WHERE clause places conditions on the selected columns, whereas the HAVING clause places conditions on groups created by the GROUP BY clause.

  SELECT column1, column2
  FROM table1, table2
  WHERE [ conditions ]
  GROUP BY column1, column2
  HAVING [ conditions ]
  ORDER BY column1, column2
  

• A transaction is a unit of work that is performed against a database.
• Transactions are units or sequences of work accomplished in a logical order, whether in a manual fashion by a user or automatically by some sort of a database program.
• A transaction is the propagation of one or more changes to the database.
• For example, if you are creating a record or updating a record or deleting a record from the table, then you are performing a transaction on that table.
• It is important to control these transactions to ensure the data integrity and to handle database errors.

Transactions have the following four standard properties, usually referred to by the acronym ACID.

Atomicity - ensures that all operations within the work unit are completed successfully.Otherwise, the transaction is aborted at the point of failure and all the previous operations are rolled back to their former state.

Consistency − ensures that the database properly changes states upon a successfully committed transaction.

Isolation − enables transactions to operate independently of and transparent to each other.

Durability − ensures that the result or effect of a committed transaction persists in case of a system failure.

COMMIT;

ROLLBACK;

SAVEPOINT SAVEPOINT_NAME;

ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT_NAME;

RELEASE SAVEPOINT SAVEPOINT_NAME;

SET TRANSACTION [ READ WRITE | READ ONLY ];

• Matches one or more characters.

Note − MS Access uses the asterisk (*) wildcard character instead of the percent sign (%) wildcard character.

• Matches one character.

Note − MS Access uses a question mark (?) instead of the underscore (_) to match any one character.

SELECT * FROM table_name
WHERE column LIKE 'XXXX%'
    
(or)

SELECT * FROM table_name
WHERE column LIKE '%XXXX%'

(or)

SELECT * FROM table_name
WHERE column LIKE 'XXXX_'

(or)

SELECT * FROM table_name
WHERE column LIKE '_XXXX'

(or)

SELECT * FROM table_name
WHERE column LIKE '_XXXX_'

• Finds any values that start with 200.

• Finds any values that have 200 in any position.

• Finds any values that have 00 in the second and third positions.

• Finds any values that start with 2 and are at least 3 characters in length.

• Finds any values that end with 2.

• Finds any values that have a 2 in the second position and end with a 3.

• Finds any values in a five-digit number that start with 2 and end with 3.