Introduction

What This Book is About

This book will cover the basics of SQL, and should help introduce beginners to SQL concepts. It is also a good documentation source when forgetting how the basic SQL syntax works.

Contributing

This book is open source, so please feel free to visit the github repository to help contribute! If you notice any typos or errors in this book, you can clone the repo and open a pull request with the new and improved changes, or simply just open a new issue. Any contribution is greatly appreciated and it will help make this book better for those reading it after you!

License

This book is currently licensed under a Creative Commons license. For more information, read more on the official Creative Commons website.

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Here is the example database that will be used throughout the book:

Movies

mIDTitleYearDirector

101

Top Gun

1986

Tony Scott

102

Titanic

1997

James Cameron

103

The Lion King

1994

Rob Minkoff

104

Gravity

2013

Alfonso Cuaron

105

Harry Potter

2001

<null>

106

Cast Away

2000

Robert Zemeckis

107

Spider Man

2002

Sam Raimi

108

The Godfather

1972

Francis Coppola

User

uIDName

201

James Dean

202

Chris Anderson

203

Ashley Burley

204

Ralph Truman

205

Gordon Maximus

206

Sarah Rodgriguez

207

Darrel Sherman

208

Lisa Jackson

Review

uIDmIDRatingratingDate

201

101

2

2014-03-09

201

101

4

2014-03-02

202

104

4

<null>

203

107

2

2014-03-24

204

103

4

2014-03-17

204

104

2

2014-03-13

205

108

3

2014-03-24

206

102

3

2014-03-02

207

104

5

<null>

207

106

4

2014-03-07

207

102

5

2014-03-26

208

105

2

2014-03-13

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