Introduction to SQL

Structure Query Language(SQL) is a programming

language used for storing and managing data in RDBMS.
SQL was the first commercial language introduced for
E.F Codd's Relational model. Today almost all
RDBMS(MySql, Oracle, Infomix, Sybase, MS Access)
uses SQL as the standard database language. SQL is used
to perform all type of data operations in RDBMS.

SQL Command
SQL defines following data languages to manipulate data
of RDBMS.

DDL : Data Definition Language

All DDL commands are auto-committed. That means it
saves all the changes permanently in the database.
Command Description
create to create new table or database
alter for alteration
truncate delete data from table
drop to drop a table
rename to rename a table
DML : Data Manipulation Language
DML commands are not auto-committed. It means
changes are not permanent to database, they can be rolled
back.
Command Description
insert to insert a new row
update to update existing row
delete to delete a row
merge merging two rows or two tables

TCL : Transaction Control Language

These commands are to keep a check on other commands
and their affect on the database. These commands can
annul changes made by other commands by rolling back
to original state. It can also make changes permanent.
Command Description
commit to permanently save
rollback to undo change
savepoint to save temporarily

DCL : Data Control Language

Data control language provides command to grant and
take back authority.
Command Description
grant permission of
grant
right
take back
revoke
permission.

DQL : Data Query Language

Command Description
retrieve records
from one or more table
select
1.create command
create is a DDL command used to create a table or a
database.

Creating a Database
To create a database in RDBMS, create command is uses.
Following is the Syntax,
create database database-name;

Example for Creating Database

create database Test;
The above command will create a database named Test.

Creating a Table
create command is also used to create a table. We can
specify names and datatypes of various columns
along.Following is the Syntax,
create table table-name
{
column-name1 datatype1,
column-name2 datatype2,
 column-name3 datatype3,
column-name4 datatype4
};
create table command will tell the database system to
create a new table with given table name and column
information.

Example for creating Table

create table Student(id integer, name
varchar2(20), age integer);
The above command will create a new table Student in
database system with 3 columns, namely id, name and
age.
2 alter command
alter command is used for alteration of table structures.
There are various uses of alter command, such as,
 to add a column to existing table
 to rename any existing column
 to change datatype of any column or to modify its
size.
 alter is also used to drop a column.
To Add Column to existing Table
Using alter command we can add a column to an existing
table. Following is the Syntax,
alter table table-name add(column-name
datatype);
Here is an Example for this,
alter table Student add(address
char(15));
The above command will add a new column address to
the Student table

To Add Multiple Column to existing Table

Using alter command we can even add multiple columns
to an existing table. Following is the Syntax,
alter table table-name add(column-name1
datatype1, column-name2 datatype2,
column-name3 datatype3);
Here is an Example for this,
alter table Student add(father-name
varchar(60), mother-name varchar(60),
dob date);
The above command will add three new columns to the
Student table

To Add column with Default Value

alter command can add a new column to an existing table
with default values. Following is the Syntax,
alter table table-name add(column-name1
datatype1 default data);
Here is an Example for this,
alter table Student add(dob date
default '1-Jan-99');
The above command will add a new column with default
value to the Student table

To Modify an existing Column

alter command is used to modify data type of an existing
column . Following is the Syntax,
alter table table-name modify(column-
name datatype);
Here is an Example for this,
alter table Student modify(address
varchar(30));
The above command will modify address column of the
Student table

To Rename a column
Using alter command you can rename an existing column.
Following is the Syntax,
alter table table-name rename column
old-column-name to column-name;
Here is an Example for this,
alter table Student rename column
address to Location;
The above command will rename address column to
Location.

To Drop a Column
alter command is also used to drop columns also.
Following is the Syntax,
alter table table-name drop column
(column-name);
Here is an Example for this,
alter table Student drop
column(address);
The above command will drop address column from the
Student table

3. drop command
drop query completely removes a table from database.
This command will also destroy the table structure.
Following is its Syntax,
drop table table-name
Here is an Example explaining it.
drop table Student;
The above query will delete the Student table completely.
It can also be used on Databases. For Example, to drop a
database,
drop database Test;
The above query will drop a database named Test from
the system.

4.rename query
rename command is used to rename a table. Following is
its Syntax,
rename old-table-name to new-table-name
Here is an Example explaining it.
rename Student to Student-record;
The above query will rename Student table to Student-
record.
DML command
Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements are used
for managing data in database. DML commands are not
auto-committed. It means changes made by DML
command are not permanent to database, it can be rolled
back.

1) INSERT command
Insert command is used to insert data into a table.
Following is its general syntax,
INSERT into table-name
values(data1,data2,..)
Lets see an example,
Consider a table Student with following fields.
S_id S_Name age
INSERT into Student
values(101,'Adam',15);
The above command will insert a record into Student
table.
S_id S_Name age
101 Adam 15

Example to Insert NULL value to a column

Both the statements below will insert NULL value into
age column of the Student table.
INSERT into Student(id,name)
values(102,'Alex');
Or,
INSERT into Student
values(102,'Alex',null);
The above command will insert only two column value
other column is set to null.
S_id S_Name Age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex

Example to Insert Default value to a column

INSERT into Student
values(103,'Chris',default)
S_id S_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex
103 chris 14
Suppose the age column of student table has default value
of 14.
Also, if you run the below query, it will insert default
value into the age column, whatever the default value may
be.
INSERT into Student values(103,'Chris')

2) UPDATE command
Update command is used to update a row of a table.
Following is its general syntax,
UPDATE table-name set column-name =
value where condition;
Lets see an example,
update Student set age=18 where
s_id=102;
S_id S_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18
103 Chris 14

Example to Update multiple columns

UPDATE Student set s_name='Abhi',age=17
where s_id=103;
The above command will update two columns of a record.
S_id S_Name Age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18
103 Abhi 17

3) Delete command
Delete command is used to delete data from a table.
Delete command can also be used with condition to delete
a particular row. Following is its general syntax,
DELETE from table-name;

Example to Delete all Records from a Table

DELETE from Student;
The above command will delete all the records from
Student table.

Example to Delete a particular Record from a Table

Consider the following Student table
S_id S_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18
103 Abhi 17
DELETE from Student where s_id=103;
The above command will delete the record where s_id is
103 from Student table.
S_id S_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18

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SELECT Query
Select query is used to retrieve data from a tables. It is the
most used SQL query. We can retrieve complete tables, or
partial by mentioning conditions using WHERE clause.

Syntax of SELECT Query

SELECT column-name1, column-name2,
column-name3, column-nameN from table-
name;

Example for SELECT Query

Consider the following Student table,
S_id S_Name age address
101 Adam 15 Noida
102 Alex 18 Delhi
103 Abhi 17 Rohtak
104 Ankit 22 Panipat
SELECT s_id, s_name, age from Student.
The above query will fetch information of s_id, s_name
and age column from Student table
S_id S_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18
103 Abhi 17
104 Ankit 22

Example to Select all Records from Table

A special character asterisk * is used to address all the
data(belonging to all columns) in a query. SELECT
statement uses * character to retrieve all records from a
table.
SELECT * from student;
The above query will show all the records of Student
table, that means it will show complete Student table as
result.
S_id S_Name age address
101 Adam 15 Noida
102 Alex 18 Delhi
103 Abhi 17 Rohtak
104 Ankit 22 Panipat

Example to Select particular Record based on

Condition
SELECT * from Student WHERE s_name =
'Abhi';
103 Abhi 17 Rohtak

Example to Perform Simple Calculations using Select

Query
Conside the following Employee table.
eid Name age salary
101 Adam 26 5000
102 Ricky 42 8000
103 Abhi 22 10000
104 Rohan 35 5000
SELECT eid, name, salary+3000 from
Employee;
The above command will display a new column in the
result, showing 3000 added into existing salaries of the
employees.
eid Name salary+3000
101 Adam 8000
102 Ricky 11000
103 Abhi 13000
104 Rohan 8000
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Like clause
Like clause is used as condition in SQL query. Like
clause compares data with an expression using wildcard
operators. It is used to find similar data from the table.

Wildcard operators
There are two wildcard operators that are used in like
clause.
 Percent sign % : represents zero, one or more than
one character.
 Underscore sign _ : represents only one character.

Example of LIKE clause

Consider the following Student table.
s_id s_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18
103 Abhi 17
SELECT * from Student where s_name like
'A%';
The above query will return all records where s_name
starts with character 'A'.
s_id s_Name age
101 Adam 15
102 Alex 18
103 Abhi 17

Example
SELECT * from Student where s_name like
'_d%';
The above query will return all records from Student
table where s_name contain 'd' as second character.
s_id s_Name age
101 Adam 15

Example
SELECT * from Student where s_name like
'%x';
The above query will return all records from Student
table where s_name contain 'x' as last character.
s_id s_Name age
102 Alex 18
Order By Clause
Order by clause is used with Select statement for
arranging retrieved data in sorted order. The Order by
clause by default sort data in ascending order. To sort data
in descending order DESC keyword is used with Order
by clause.

Syntax of Order By
SELECT column-list|* from table-name
order by asc|desc;

Example using Order by

Consider the following Emp table,
eid Name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SELECT * from Emp order by salary;
The above query will return result in ascending order of
the salary.
eid Name age salary
403 Rohan 34 6000
402 Shane 29 8000
405 Tiger 35 8000
401 Anu 22 9000
404 Scott 44 10000

Example of Order by DESC

Consider the Emp table described above,
SELECT * from Emp order by salary DESC;
The above query will return result in descending order of
the salary.
eid Name age salary
404 Scott 44 10000
401 Anu 22 9000
405 Tiger 35 8000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
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Group By Clause
Group by clause is used to group the results of a SELECT
query based on one or more columns. It is also used with
SQL functions to group the result from one or more
tables.
Syntax for using Group by in a statement.
SELECT column_name,
function(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
GROUP BY column_name

Example of Group by in a Statement

Consider the following Emp table.
eid Name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 9000
405 Tiger 35 8000
Here we want to find name and age of employees grouped
by their salaries
SQL query for the above requirement will be,
SELECT name, age
from Emp group by salary
Result will be,
name age
Rohan 34
shane 29
anu 22

Example of Group by in a Statement with WHERE

clause
Consider the following Emp table
Eid Name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 9000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query will be,
select name, salary
from Emp
where age > 25
group by salary
Result will be.
name salary
Rohan 6000
Shane 8000
Scott 9000
You must remember that Group By clause will always
come at the end, just like the Order by clause.

Distinct keyword
The distinct keyword is used with Select statement to
retrieve unique values from the table. Distinct removes
all the duplicate records while retrieving from database.

Syntax for DISTINCT Keyword

SELECT distinct column-name from table-
name;

Example
Consider the following Emp table.
eid Name age salary
401 Anu 22 5000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 10000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000

select distinct salary from Emp;

The above query will return only the unique salary from
Emp table
salary
5000
8000
10000

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AND & OR operator
AND and OR operators are used with Where clause to
make more precise conditions for fetching data from
database by combining more than one condition together.

AND operator
AND operator is used to set multiple conditions with
Where clause.

Example of AND
Consider the following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 5000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 12000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 9000

SELECT * from Emp WHERE salary < 10000

AND age > 25
The above query will return records where salary is less
than 10000 and age greater than 25.
eid name age salary
402 Shane 29 8000
405 Tiger 35 9000

OR operator
OR operator is also used to combine multiple conditions
with Where clause. The only difference between AND
and OR is their behaviour. When we use AND to combine
two or more than two conditions, records satisfying all the
condition will be in the result. But in case of OR, atleast
one condition from the conditions specified must be
satisfied by any record to be in the result.

Example of OR
Consider the following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 5000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 12000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 9000
SELECT * from Emp WHERE salary > 10000
OR age > 25
The above query will return records where either salary is
greater than 10000 or age greater than 25.
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 12000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 9000

TCL command
Transaction Control Language(TCL) commands are used
to manage transactions in database.These are used to
manage the changes made by DML statements. It also
allows statements to be grouped together into logical
transactions.

Commit command
Commit command is used to permanently save any
transaaction into database.
Following is Commit command's syntax,
commit;

Rollback command
This command restores the database to last commited
state. It is also use with savepoint command to jump to a
savepoint in a transaction.
Following is Rollback command's syntax,
rollback to savepoint-name;
SQL Functions
SQL provides many built-in functions to perform
operations on data. These functions are useful while
performing mathematical calculations, string
concatenations, sub-strings etc. SQL functions are divided
into two catagories,
 Aggregrate Functions
 Scalar Functions

Aggregrate Functions
These functions return a single value after calculating
from a group of values.Following are some frequently
used Aggregrate functions.

1) AVG()
Average returns average value after calculating from
values in a numeric column.
Its general Syntax is,
SELECT AVG(column_name) from table_name

Example using AVG()

Consider following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query to find average of salary will be,
SELECT avg(salary) from Emp;
Result of the above query will be,
avg(salary)
8200

2) COUNT()
Count returns the number of rows present in the table
either based on some condition or without condition.
Its general Syntax is,
SELECT COUNT(column_name) from table-
name

Example using COUNT()

Consider following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query to count employees, satisfying specified
condition is,
SELECT COUNT(name) from Emp where
salary = 8000;
Result of the above query will be,
count(name)
2

Example of COUNT(distinct)
Consider following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query is,
SELECT COUNT(distinct salary) from emp;
Result of the above query will be,
count(distinct salary)
4

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3. MAX()
MAX function returns maximum value from selected
column of the table.
Syntax of MAX function is,
SELECT MAX(column_name) from table-name

Example of MAX()
Consider following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query to find Maximum salary is,
SELECT MAX(salary) from emp;
Result of the above query will be,
MAX(salary)
10000

4) MIN()
MIN function returns minimum value from a selected
column of the table.
Syntax for MIN function is,
SELECT MIN(column_name) from table-name

Example of MIN()
Consider following Emp table,
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query to find minimum salary is,
SELECT MIN(salary) from emp;
Result will be,
MIN(salary)
6000

5) SUM()
SUM function returns total sum of a selected columns
numeric values.
Syntax for SUM is,
SELECT SUM(column_name) from table-name

Example of SUM()
Consider following Emp table
eid name age salary
401 Anu 22 9000
402 Shane 29 8000
403 Rohan 34 6000
404 Scott 44 10000
405 Tiger 35 8000
SQL query to find sum of salaries will be,
SELECT SUM(salary) from emp;
Result of above query is,
SUM(salary)
41000

Join in SQL
SQL Join is used to fetch data from two or more tables,
which is joined to appear as single set of data. SQL Join is
used for combining column from two or more tables by
using values common to both tables. Join Keyword is
used in SQL queries for joining two or more tables.
Minimum required condition for joining table, is (n-1)
where n, is number of tables. A table can also join to itself
known as, Self Join.

Types of Join
The following are the types of JOIN that we can use in
SQL.
 Inner
 Outer
 Left
 Right

Cross JOIN or Cartesian Product

This type of JOIN returns the cartesian product of rows
from the tables in Join. It will return a table which
consists of records which combines each row from the
first table with each row of the second table.
Cross JOIN Syntax is,
SELECT column-name-list
from table-name1
CROSS JOIN
table-name2;

Example of Cross JOIN

The class table,

ID NAME
1 abhi
2 adam
4 alex
The class_info table,
ID Address
1 DELHI
2 MUMBAI
3 CHENNAI
Cross JOIN query will be,
SELECT *
from class,
cross JOIN class_info;
The result table will look like,
ID NAME ID Address
1 abhi 1 DELHI
2 adam 1 DELHI
4 alex 1 DELHI
1 abhi 2 MUMBAI
2 adam 2 MUMBAI
4 alex 2 MUMBAI
1 abhi 3 CHENNAI
2 adam 3 CHENNAI
4 alex 3 CHENNAI

INNER Join or EQUI Join

This is a simple JOIN in which the result is based on
matched data as per the equality condition specified in the
query.

Inner Join Syntax is,

SELECT column-name-list
from table-name1
INNER JOIN
table-name2
on table-name1.column-name = table-
name2.column-name;
Example of Inner JOIN
The class table,
ID NAME
1 abhi
2 adam
3 alex
4 anu
The class_info table,
ID Address
1 DELHI
2 MUMBAI
3 CHENNAI
Inner JOIN query will be,
SELECT * from class, class_info where
class.id = class_info.id;
The result table will look like,
ID NAME ID Address
1 abhi 1 DELHI
2 adam 2 MUMBAI
3 alex 3 CHENNAI
Natural JOIN
Natural Join is a type of Inner join which is based on
column having same name and same datatype present in
both the tables to be joined.
Natural Join Syntax is,
SELECT *
from table-name1
NATURAL JOIN
table-name2;

Example of Natural JOIN

The class table,
ID NAME
1 abhi
2 adam
3 alex
4 anu
The class_info table,
ID Address
1 DELHI
2 MUMBAI
3 CHENNAI
Natural join query will be,
SELECT * from class NATURAL JOIN
class_info;
The result table will look like,
ID NAME Address
1 abhi DELHI
2 adam MUMBAI
3 alex CHENNAI
In the above example, both the tables being joined have
ID column(same name and same datatype), hence the
records for which value of ID matches in both the tables
will be the result of Natural Join of these two tables.

Outer JOIN
Outer Join is based on both matched and unmatched data.
Outer Joins subdivide further into,
 Left Outer Join
 Right Outer Join
 Full Outer Join
Left Outer Join
The left outer join returns a result table with the matched
data of two tables then remaining rows of the left table
and null for the right table's column.
Left Outer Join syntax is,
SELECT column-name-list
from table-name1
LEFT OUTER JOIN
table-name2
on table-name1.column-name = table-
name2.column-name;
Left outer Join Syntax for Oracle is,
select column-name-list
from table-name1,
table-name2
on table-name1.column-name = table-
name2.column-name(+);

Example of Left Outer Join

The class table,
ID NAME
1 abhi
2 adam
3 alex
4 anu
5 ashish
The class_info table,
ID Address
1 DELHI
2 MUMBAI
3 CHENNAI
7 NOIDA
8 PANIPAT
Left Outer Join query will be,
SELECT * FROM class LEFT OUTER JOIN
class_info ON (class.id=class_info.id);

The result table will look like,

ID NAME ID Address
1 abhi 1 DELHI
2 adam 2 MUMBAI
3 alex 3 CHENNAI
4 anu null null
5 ashish null null

Right Outer Join

The right outer join returns a result table with the
matched data of two tables then remaining rows of the
right table and null for the left table's columns.
Right Outer Join Syntax is,
select column-name-list
from table-name1
RIGHT OUTER JOIN
table-name2
on table-name1.column-name = table-
name2.column-name;
Right outer Join Syntax for Oracle is,
select column-name-list
from table-name1,
table-name2
on table-name1.column-name(+) = table-
name2.column-name;

Example of Right Outer Join

The class table,
ID NAME
1 abhi
2 adam
3 alex
4 anu
5 ashish
The class_info table,
ID Address
1 DELHI
2 MUMBAI
3 CHENNAI
7 NOIDA
8 PANIPAT
Right Outer Join query will be,
SELECT * FROM class RIGHT OUTER JOIN
class_info on (class.id=class_info.id);

The result table will look like,

 ID NAME ID Address
1 abhi 1 DELHI
2 adam 2 MUMBAI
3 alex 3 CHENNAI
null null 7 NOIDA
null null 8 PANIPAT

Full Outer Join

The full outer join returns a result table with the matched
data of two table then remaining rows of both left table
and then the right table.
Full Outer Join Syntax is,
select column-name-list
from table-name1
FULL OUTER JOIN
table-name2
on table-name1.column-name = table-
name2.column-name;
Example of Full outer join is,
The class table,
ID NAME
1 abhi
2 adam
3 alex
4 anu
5 ashish

The class_info table,

ID Address
1 DELHI
2 MUMBAI
3 CHENNAI
7 NOIDA
8 PANIPAT
Full Outer Join query will be like,
SELECT * FROM class FULL OUTER JOIN
class_info on (class.id=class_info.id);
The result table will look like,
ID NAME ID Address
1 abhi 1 DELHI
2 adam 2 MUMBAI
3 alex 3 CHENNAI
4 anu null null
5 ashish null null
null null 7 NOIDA
null null 8 PANIPAT