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Introduction to SQL
SQL is a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases.

What is SQL?
• SQL stands for Structured Query Language
• SQL lets you access and manipulate databases
• SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) in 1987

What Can SQL do?

• SQL can execute queries against a database
• SQL can retrieve data from a database
• SQL can insert records in a database
• SQL can update records in a database
• SQL can delete records from a database
• SQL can create new databases
• SQL can create new tables in a database
• SQL can create stored procedures in a database
• SQL can create views in a database
• SQL can set permissions on tables, procedures, and views

SQL is a Standard - BUT....

Although SQL is an ANSI/ISO standard, there are different versions of the SQL
language.

However, to be compliant with the ANSI standard, they all support at least the
major commands (such as SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT, WHERE) in a
similar manner.

Note: Most of the SQL database programs also have their own proprietary
extensions in addition to the SQL standard!

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 Using SQL in Your Web Site
To build a web site that shows data from a database, you will need:

• An RDBMS database program (i.e. MS Access, SQL Server, MySQL)

• To use a server-side scripting language, like PHP or ASP
• To use SQL to get the data you want
• To use HTML / CSS to style the page

RDBMS
RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System.

RDBMS is the basis for SQL, and for all modern database systems such as MS
SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Access.

The data in RDBMS is stored in database objects called tables. A table is a

collection of related data entries and it consists of columns and rows.

Look at the "Customers" table:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers;
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Every table is broken up into smaller entities called fields. The fields in the
Customers table consist of CustomerID, CustomerName, ContactName,
Address, City, PostalCode and Country. A field is a column in a table that is
designed to maintain specific information about every record in the table.

A record, also called a row, is each individual entry that exists in a table. For
example, there are 91 records in the above Customers table. A record is a
horizontal entity in a table.

A column is a vertical entity in a table that contains all information associated

with a specific field in a table.

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 Database Tables
A database most often contains one or more tables. Each table is identified by a
name (e.g. "Customers" or "Orders"). Tables contain records (rows) with data.

In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database (included
in MS Access and MS SQL Server).

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución D.F.
2222
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas 120 Hanover London WA1 1DP UK
Hardy Sq.
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

The table above contains five records (one for each customer) and seven
columns (CustomerID, CustomerName, ContactName, Address, City,
PostalCode, and Country).

SQL Statements
Most of the actions you need to perform on a database are done with SQL
statements.

The following SQL statement selects all the records in the "Customers" table:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers;
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In this tutorial we will teach you all about the different SQL statements.

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 Keep in Mind That...
• SQL keywords are NOT case sensitive: select is the same as SELECT

In this tutorial we will write all SQL keywords in upper-case.

Semicolon after SQL Statements?

Some database systems require a semicolon at the end of each SQL statement.

Semicolon is the standard way to separate each SQL statement in database

systems that allow more than one SQL statement to be executed in the same
call to the server.

In this tutorial, we will use semicolon at the end of each SQL statement.

Some of The Most Important SQL

Commands
• SELECT - extracts data from a database
• UPDATE - updates data in a database
• DELETE - deletes data from a database
• INSERT INTO - inserts new data into a database
• CREATE DATABASE - creates a new database
• ALTER DATABASE - modifies a database
• CREATE TABLE - creates a new table
• ALTER TABLE - modifies a table
• DROP TABLE - deletes a table
• CREATE INDEX - creates an index (search key)
• DROP INDEX - deletes an index

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 The SQL SELECT Statement
The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database.

The data returned is stored in a result table, called the result-set.

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

Here, column1, column2, ... are the field names of the table you want to select
data from. If you want to select all the fields available in the table, use the
following syntax:

SELECT * FROM table_name;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución 2222 D.F.
helados
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

SELECT Column Example

The following SQL statement selects the "CustomerName" and "City" columns
from the "Customers" table:

Example
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 SELECT CustomerName, City FROM Customers;

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SELECT * Example
The following SQL statement selects all the columns from the "Customers"
table:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers;

Try it Yourself »

With Exercises
Exercise:
Insert the missing statement to get all the columns from the Customers table.

* FROM Customers;

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 The SQL SELECT DISTINCT Statement
The SELECT DISTINCT statement is used to return only distinct (different) values.

Inside a table, a column often contains many duplicate values; and sometimes you only want to list
the different (distinct) values.

SELECT DISTINCT Syntax

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

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución 2222 D.F.
helados
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

SELECT Example Without DISTINCT

The following SQL statement selects ALL (including the duplicates) values from the "Country"
column in the "Customers" table:

Example
SELECT Country FROM Customers;
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 Now, let us use the DISTINCT keyword with the above SELECT statement and see the result.

SELECT DISTINCT Examples

The following SQL statement selects only the DISTINCT values from the "Country" column in the
"Customers" table:

Example
SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM Customers;
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The following SQL statement lists the number of different (distinct) customer countries:

Example
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Country) FROM Customers;
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Note: The example above will not work in Firefox! Because COUNT(DISTINCT column_name)
is not supported in Microsoft Access databases. Firefox is using Microsoft Access in our examples.

Here is the workaround for MS Access:

Example
SELECT Count(*) AS DistinctCountries
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM Customers);
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Exercises
Exercise:
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 Select all the different values from the Country column in the Customers table.

Country FROM Customers;

Submit Answer »

The SQL WHERE Clause

The WHERE clause is used to filter records.

The WHERE clause is used to extract only those records that fulfill a specified
condition.

WHERE Syntax
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

Note: The WHERE clause is not only used in SELECT statement, it is also used
in UPDATE, DELETE statement, etc.!

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

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 WHERE Clause Example
The following SQL statement selects all the customers from the country
"Mexico", in the "Customers" table:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Mexico';

Try it Yourself »

Text Fields vs. Numeric Fields

SQL requires single quotes around text values (most database systems will also
allow double quotes).

However, numeric fields should not be enclosed in quotes:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerID=1;

Try it Yourself »

Operators in The WHERE Clause

The following operators can be used in the WHERE clause:

Operator Description Example

= Equal Try it
> Greater than Try it
< Less than Try it
>= Greater than or equal Try it

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<= Less than or equal Try it
<> Not equal. Note: In some versions of SQL this operator may be Try it
written as !=
BETWEEN Between a certain range Try it
LIKE Search for a pattern Try it
IN To specify multiple possible values for a column Try it

Exercise:
Select all records where the City column has the value "Berlin".

SELECT * FROM Customers

= ;

Submit Answer »

Start the Exercise

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 The SQL AND, OR and NOT Operators
The WHERE clause can be combined with AND, OR, and NOT operators.

The AND and OR operators are used to filter records based on more than one
condition:

• The AND operator displays a record if all the conditions separated by AND
are TRUE.
• The OR operator displays a record if any of the conditions separated by
OR is TRUE.

The NOT operator displays a record if the condition(s) is NOT TRUE.

AND Syntax
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition1 AND condition2 AND condition3 ...;

OR Syntax
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition1 OR condition2 OR condition3 ...;

NOT Syntax
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE NOT condition;

Demo Database
The table below shows the complete "Customers" table from the Northwind
sample database:

Customer CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

ID
1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México D.F. 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222

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3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México D.F. 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno
4 Around the Horn Thomas 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 UK
Hardy 1DP
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund
6 Blauer See Hanna Moos Forsterstr. 57 Mannheim 68306 Germany
Delikatessen
7 Blondel père et fils Frédérique 24, place Kléber Strasbourg 67000 France
Citeaux
8 Bólido Comidas Martín C/ Araquil, 67 Madrid 28023 Spain
preparadas Sommer
9 Bon app' Laurence 12, rue des Bouchers Marseille 13008 France
Lebihans
10 Bottom-Dollar Elizabeth 23 Tsawassen Blvd. Tsawassen T2F 8M4 Canada
Marketse Lincoln
11 B's Beverages Victoria Fauntleroy Circus London EC2 5NT UK
Ashworth
12 Cactus Comidas para Patricio Cerrito 333 Buenos 1010 Argentina
llevar Simpson Aires
13 Centro comercial Francisco Sierras de Granada México D.F. 05022 Mexico
Moctezuma Chang 9993
14 Chop-suey Chinese Yang Wang Hauptstr. 29 Bern 3012 Switzerlan
d
15 Comércio Mineiro Pedro Afonso Av. dos Lusíadas, 23 São Paulo 05432- Brazil
043
16 Consolidated Holdings Elizabeth Berkeley Gardens 12 London WX1 UK
Brown Brewery 6LT
17 Drachenblut Sven Ottlieb Walserweg 21 Aachen 52066 Germany
Delikatessend
18 Du monde entier Janine 67, rue des Cinquante Nantes 44000 France
Labrune Otages
19 Eastern Connection Ann Devon 35 King George London WX3 UK
6FW
20 Ernst Handel Roland Kirchgasse 6 Graz 8010 Austria
Mendel
21 Familia Arquibaldo Aria Cruz Rua Orós, 92 São Paulo 05442- Brazil
030
22 FISSA Fabrica Inter. Diego Roel C/ Moralzarzal, 86 Madrid 28034 Spain
Salchichas S.A.
23 Folies gourmandes Martine 184, chaussée de Lille 59000 France
Rancé Tournai
24 Folk och fä HB Maria Åkergatan 24 Bräcke S-844 67 Sweden
Larsson
25 Frankenversand Peter Berliner Platz 43 München 80805 Germany
Franken
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26 France restauration Carine 54, rue Royale Nantes 44000 France
Schmitt
27 Franchi S.p.A. Paolo Accorti Via Monte Bianco 34 Torino 10100 Italy
28 Furia Bacalhau e Lino Jardim das rosas n. Lisboa 1675 Portugal
Frutos do Mar Rodriguez 32
29 Galería del gastrónomo Eduardo Rambla de Cataluña, Barcelona 08022 Spain
Saavedra 23
30 Godos Cocina Típica José Pedro C/ Romero, 33 Sevilla 41101 Spain
Freyre
31 Gourmet Lanchonetes André Av. Brasil, 442 Campinas 04876- Brazil
Fonseca 786
32 Great Lakes Food Howard 2732 Baker Blvd. Eugene 97403 USA
Market Snyder
33 GROSELLA- Manuel 5ª Ave. Los Palos Caracas 1081 Venezuela
Restaurante Pereira Grandes
34 Hanari Carnes Mario Pontes Rua do Paço, 67 Rio de 05454- Brazil
Janeiro 876
35 HILARIÓN-Abastos Carlos Carrera 22 con Ave. San 5022 Venezuela
Hernández Carlos Soublette #8- Cristóbal
35
36 Hungry Coyote Import Yoshi City Center Plaza 516 Elgin 97827 USA
Store Latimer Main St.
37 Hungry Owl All-Night Patricia 8 Johnstown Road Cork Ireland
Grocers McKenna
38 Island Trading Helen Garden House Cowes PO31 7PJ UK
Bennett Crowther Way
39 Königlich Essen Philip Maubelstr. 90 Brandenbur 14776 Germany
Cramer g
40 La corne d'abondance Daniel 67, avenue de Versailles 78000 France
Tonini l'Europe
41 La maison d'Asie Annette 1 rue Alsace-Lorraine Toulouse 31000 France
Roulet
42 Laughing Bacchus Yoshi 1900 Oak St. Vancouver V3F 2K1 Canada
Wine Cellars Tannamuri
43 Lazy K Kountry Store John Steel 12 Orchestra Terrace Walla Walla 99362 USA
44 Lehmanns Marktstand Renate Magazinweg 7 Frankfurt 60528 Germany
Messner a.M.
45 Let's Stop N Shop Jaime Yorres 87 Polk St. Suite 5 San 94117 USA
Francisco
46 LILA-Supermercado Carlos Carrera 52 con Ave. Barquisimet 3508 Venezuela
González Bolívar #65-98 Llano o
Largo
47 LINO-Delicateses Felipe Ave. 5 de Mayo I. de 4980 Venezuela
Izquierdo Porlamar Margarita
48 Lonesome Pine Fran Wilson 89 Chiaroscuro Rd. Portland 97219 USA
Restaurant
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49 Magazzini Alimentari Giovanni Via Ludovico il Moro Bergamo 24100 Italy
Riuniti Rovelli 22
50 Maison Dewey Catherine Rue Joseph-Bens 532 Bruxelles B-1180 Belgium
Dewey
51 Mère Paillarde Jean 43 rue St. Laurent Montréal H1J 1C3 Canada
Fresnière
52 Morgenstern Alexander Heerstr. 22 Leipzig 04179 Germany
Gesundkost Feuer
53 North/South Simon South House 300 London SW7 UK
Crowther Queensbridge 1RZ
54 Océano Atlántico Ltda. Yvonne Ing. Gustavo Buenos 1010 Argentina
Moncada Moncada 8585 Piso Aires
20-A
55 Old World Rene Phillips 2743 Bering St. Anchorage 99508 USA
Delicatessen
56 Ottilies Käseladen Henriette Mehrheimerstr. 369 Köln 50739 Germany
Pfalzheim
57 Paris spécialités Marie 265, boulevard Paris 75012 France
Bertrand Charonne
58 Pericles Comidas Guillermo Calle Dr. Jorge Cash México D.F. 05033 Mexico
clásicas Fernández 321
59 Piccolo und mehr Georg Pipps Geislweg 14 Salzburg 5020 Austria
60 Princesa Isabel Isabel de Estrada da saúde n. Lisboa 1756 Portugal
Vinhoss Castro 58
61 Que Delícia Bernardo Rua da Panificadora, Rio de 02389- Brazil
Batista 12 Janeiro 673
62 Queen Cozinha Lúcia Alameda dos São Paulo 05487- Brazil
Carvalho Canàrios, 891 020
63 QUICK-Stop Horst Kloss Taucherstraße 10 Cunewalde 01307 Germany
64 Rancho grande Sergio Av. del Libertador Buenos 1010 Argentina
Gutiérrez 900 Aires
65 Rattlesnake Canyon Paula Wilson 2817 Milton Dr. Albuquerqu 87110 USA
Grocery e
66 Reggiani Caseifici Maurizio Strada Provinciale Reggio 42100 Italy
Moroni 124 Emilia
67 Ricardo Adocicados Janete Av. Copacabana, 267 Rio de 02389- Brazil
Limeira Janeiro 890
68 Richter Supermarkt Michael Holz Grenzacherweg 237 Genève 1203 Switzerlan
d
69 Romero y tomillo Alejandra Gran Vía, 1 Madrid 28001 Spain
Camino
70 Santé Gourmet Jonas Erling Skakkes gate Stavern 4110 Norway
Bergulfsen 78
71 Save-a-lot Markets Jose 187 Suffolk Ln. Boise 83720 USA
Pavarotti

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72 Seven Seas Imports Hari Kumar 90 Wadhurst Rd. London OX15 UK
4NB
73 Simons bistro Jytte Petersen Vinbæltet 34 København 1734 Denmark
74 Spécialités du monde Dominique 25, rue Lauriston Paris 75016 France
Perrier
75 Split Rail Beer & Ale Art P.O. Box 555 Lander 82520 USA
Braunschwei
ger
76 Suprêmes délices Pascale Boulevard Tirou, 255 Charleroi B-6000 Belgium
Cartrain
77 The Big Cheese Liz Nixon 89 Jefferson Way Portland 97201 USA
Suite 2
78 The Cracker Box Liu Wong 55 Grizzly Peak Rd. Butte 59801 USA
79 Toms Spezialitäten Karin Luisenstr. 48 Münster 44087 Germany
Josephs
80 Tortuga Restaurante Miguel Avda. Azteca 123 México D.F. 05033 Mexico
Angel
Paolino
81 Tradição Anabela Av. Inês de Castro, São Paulo 05634- Brazil
Hipermercados Domingues 414 030
82 Trail's Head Gourmet Helvetius 722 DaVinci Blvd. Kirkland 98034 USA
Provisioners Nagy
83 Vaffeljernet Palle Ibsen Smagsløget 45 Århus 8200 Denmark
84 Victuailles en stock Mary 2, rue du Commerce Lyon 69004 France
Saveley
85 Vins et alcools Paul Henriot 59 rue de l'Abbaye Reims 51100 France
Chevalier
86 Die Wandernde Kuh Rita Müller Adenauerallee 900 Stuttgart 70563 Germany
87 Wartian Herkku Pirkko Torikatu 38 Oulu 90110 Finland
Koskitalo
88 Wellington Paula Parente Rua do Mercado, 12 Resende 08737- Brazil
Importadora 363
89 White Clover Markets Karl 305 - 14th Ave. S. Seattle 98128 USA
Jablonski Suite 3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
Karttunen
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland

AND Example
The following SQL statement selects all fields from "Customers" where country
is "Germany" AND city is "Berlin":

Example
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 SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany' AND City='Berlin';
Try it Yourself »

OR Example
The following SQL statement selects all fields from "Customers" where city is
"Berlin" OR "München":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City='Berlin' OR City='München';
Try it Yourself »

The following SQL statement selects all fields from "Customers" where country
is "Germany" OR "Spain":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany' OR Country='Spain';
Try it Yourself »

NOT Example
The following SQL statement selects all fields from "Customers" where country
is NOT "Germany":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE NOT Country='Germany';
Try it Yourself »

Combining AND, OR and NOT

You can also combine the AND, OR and NOT operators.

The following SQL statement selects all fields from "Customers" where country
is "Germany" AND city must be "Berlin" OR "München" (use parenthesis to form
complex expressions):

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 Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany' AND (City='Berlin' OR City='München');
Try it Yourself »

The following SQL statement selects all fields from "Customers" where country
is NOT "Germany" and NOT "USA":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE NOT Country='Germany' AND NOT Country='USA';
Try it Yourself »

Exercises
Exercise:
Select all records where the City column has the value 'Berlin' and
the PostalCode column has the value 12209.

* FROM Customers
City = 'Berlin'
= 12209;

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 The SQL ORDER BY Keyword
The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the result-set in ascending or
descending order.

The ORDER BY keyword sorts the records in ascending order by default. To sort
the records in descending order, use the DESC keyword.

ORDER BY Syntax
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column1, column2, ... ASC|DESC;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

ORDER BY Example
The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table,
sorted by the "Country" column:

Example

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 SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country;

Try it Yourself »

ORDER BY DESC Example

The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table,
sorted DESCENDING by the "Country" column:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country DESC;

ORDER BY Several Columns Example

The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table,
sorted by the "Country" and the "CustomerName" column. This means that it
orders by Country, but if some rows have the same Country, it orders them by
CustomerName:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country, CustomerName;

ORDER BY Several Columns Example 2

The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table,
sorted ascending by the "Country" and descending by the "CustomerName"
column:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country ASC, CustomerName DESC;

Exercise:
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 Select all records from the Customers table, sort the result alphabetically by the
column City.

SELECT * FROM Customers

;

The SQL INSERT INTO Statement

The INSERT INTO statement is used to insert new records in a table.

INSERT INTO Syntax

It is possible to write the INSERT INTO statement in two ways.

The first way specifies both the column names and the values to be inserted:

INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2, column3, ...)

VALUES (value1, value2, value3, ...);

If you are adding values for all the columns of the table, you do not need to
specify the column names in the SQL query. However, make sure the order of
the values is in the same order as the columns in the table. The INSERT INTO
syntax would be as follows:

INSERT INTO table_name

VALUES (value1, value2, value3, ...);

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

89 White Clover Karl Jablonski 305 - 14th Ave. S. Suite Seattle 98128 USA
Markets 3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Karttunen Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland

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 INSERT INTO Example
The following SQL statement inserts a new record in the "Customers" table:

Example
INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName, ContactName, Address, City,
PostalCode, Country)
VALUES ('Cardinal', 'Tom B. Erichsen', 'Skagen
21', 'Stavanger', '4006', 'Norway');

The selection from the "Customers" table will now look like this:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

89 White Clover Markets Karl Jablonski 305 - 14th Ave. S. Seattle 98128 USA
Suite 3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
Karttunen
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland
92 Cardinal Tom B. Skagen 21 Stavanger 4006 Norway
Erichsen

Did you notice that we did not insert any number into the CustomerID
field?
The CustomerID column is an auto-increment field and will be generated
automatically when a new record is inserted into the table.

Insert Data Only in Specified Columns

It is also possible to only insert data in specific columns.

The following SQL statement will insert a new record, but only insert data in the
"CustomerName", "City", and "Country" columns (CustomerID will be updated
automatically):

Example
INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName, City, Country)
VALUES ('Cardinal', 'Stavanger', 'Norway');

Try it Yourself »

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 The selection from the "Customers" table will now look like this:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

89 White Clover Markets Karl Jablonski 305 - 14th Ave. S. Suite Seattle 98128 USA
3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
Karttunen
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland
92 Cardinal null null Stavanger null Norway

Exercises
Exercise:
Insert a new record in the Customers table.

Customers
CustomerName,
Address,
City,
PostalCode,
Country

'Hekkan Burger',
'Gateveien 15',
'Sandnes',
'4306',
'Norway' ;

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 SQL NULL Values

What is a NULL Value?

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

If a field in a table is optional, it is possible to insert a new record or update a

record without adding a value to this field. Then, the field will be saved with a
NULL value.

Note: A NULL value is different from a zero value or a field that contains
spaces. A field with a NULL value is one that has been left blank during record
creation!

How to Test for NULL Values?

It is not possible to test for NULL values with comparison operators, such as =,
<, or <>.

We will have to use the IS NULL and IS NOT NULL operators instead.

IS NULL Syntax
SELECT column_names
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name IS NULL;

IS NOT NULL Syntax

SELECT column_names
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name IS NOT NULL;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

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CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country
1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución 2222 D.F.
helados
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Moreno Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

The IS NULL Operator

The IS NULL operator is used to test for empty values (NULL values).

The following SQL lists all customers with a NULL value in the "Address" field:

Example
SELECT CustomerName, ContactName, Address
FROM Customers
WHERE Address IS NULL;

Tip: Always use IS NULL to look for NULL values.

The IS NOT NULL Operator

The IS NOT NULL operator is used to test for non-empty values (NOT NULL
values).

The following SQL lists all customers with a value in the "Address" field:

Example
SELECT CustomerName, ContactName, Address
FROM Customers
WHERE Address IS NOT NULL;

Exercise:
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 Select all records from the Customers where the PostalCode column is empty.

SELECT * FROM Customers

WHERE ;

SQL UPDATE Statement

The SQL UPDATE Statement
The UPDATE statement is used to modify the existing records in a table.

UPDATE Syntax
UPDATE table_name
SET column1 = value1, column2 = value2, ...
WHERE condition;

Note: Be careful when updating records in a table! Notice the WHERE clause in
the UPDATE statement. The WHERE clause specifies which record(s) that should
be updated. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records in the table will be
updated!

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

Custom CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

erID
1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la Constitución México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

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 UPDATE Table
The following SQL statement updates the first customer (CustomerID = 1) with
a new contact person and a new city.

Example
UPDATE Customers
SET ContactName = 'Alfred Schmidt', City= 'Frankfurt'
WHERE CustomerID = 1;

Try it Yourself »

The selection from the "Customers" table will now look like this:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Alfred Schmidt Obere Str. 57 Frankfurt 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución 2222 D.F.
helados
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Moreno Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

UPDATE Multiple Records

It is the WHERE clause that determines how many records will be updated.

The following SQL statement will update the contactname to "Juan" for all
records where country is "Mexico":

Example
UPDATE Customers
SET ContactName='Juan'
WHERE Country='Mexico';

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 The selection from the "Customers" table will now look like this:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Alfred Schmidt Obere Str. 57 Frankfurt 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados Juan Avda. de la Constitución México 05021 Mexico
y helados 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Juan Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

Update Warning!
Be careful when updating records. If you omit the WHERE clause, ALL records
will be updated!

Example
UPDATE Customers
SET ContactName='Juan';

Try it Yourself »

The selection from the "Customers" table will now look like this:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Juan Obere Str. 57 Frankfurt 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados y Juan Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Juan Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
D.F.
4 Around the Horn Juan 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Juan Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden

Exercise:
Update the City column of all records in the Customers table.

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City = 'Oslo';

SQL DELETE Statement

The SQL DELETE Statement

The DELETE statement is used to delete existing records in a table.

DELETE Syntax
DELETE FROM table_name WHERE condition;

Note: Be careful when deleting records in a table! Notice the WHERE clause in
the DELETE statement. The WHERE clause specifies which record(s) should be
deleted. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records in the table will be deleted!

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

Custo CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

merID
1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados y Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

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 SQL DELETE Example
The following SQL statement deletes the customer "Alfreds Futterkiste" from the
"Customers" table:

Example
DELETE FROM Customers WHERE CustomerName='Alfreds Futterkiste';

The "Customers" table will now look like this:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Moreno Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

Delete All Records

It is possible to delete all rows in a table without deleting the table. This means
that the table structure, attributes, and indexes will be intact:

DELETE FROM table_name;

The following SQL statement deletes all rows in the "Customers" table, without
deleting the table:

Example
DELETE FROM Customers;

Try it Yourself »

Exercise:
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Customers
Country = 'Norway';

SQL TOP, LIMIT or ROWNUM Clause

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The SQL SELECT TOP Clause

The SELECT TOP clause is used to specify the number of records to return.

The SELECT TOP clause is useful on large tables with thousands of records.
Returning a large number of records can impact performance.

Note: Not all database systems support the SELECT TOP clause. MySQL
supports the LIMIT clause to select a limited number of records, while Oracle
uses ROWNUM.

SQL Server / MS Access Syntax:

SELECT TOP number|percent column_name(s)

FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

MySQL Syntax:

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
LIMIT number;

Oracle Syntax:

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE ROWNUM <= number;

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 Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Moreno Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

SQL TOP, LIMIT and ROWNUM Examples

The following SQL statement selects the first three records from the
"Customers" table (for SQL Server/MS Access):

Example
SELECT TOP 3 * FROM Customers;

Try it Yourself »

The following SQL statement shows the equivalent example using the LIMIT
clause (for MySQL):

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
LIMIT 3;

Try it Yourself »

The following SQL statement shows the equivalent example using ROWNUM (for
Oracle):

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SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE ROWNUM <= 3;

SQL TOP PERCENT Example

The following SQL statement selects the first 50% of the records from the
"Customers" table (for SQL Server/MS Access):

Example
SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT * FROM Customers;

ADD a WHERE CLAUSE

The following SQL statement selects the first three records from the
"Customers" table, where the country is "Germany" (for SQL Server/MS
Access):

Example
SELECT TOP 3 * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany';

The following SQL statement shows the equivalent example using the LIMIT
clause (for MySQL):

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany'
LIMIT 3;

The following SQL statement shows the equivalent example using ROWNUM (for
Oracle):

Example

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 SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany' AND ROWNUM <= 3;

SQL MIN() and MAX() Function

The SQL MIN() and MAX() Functions

The MIN() function returns the smallest value of the selected column.

The MAX() function returns the largest value of the selected column.

MIN() Syntax
SELECT MIN(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

MAX() Syntax
SELECT MAX(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Products" table in the Northwind sample
database:

ProductID ProductName SupplierID CategoryID Unit Price

1 Chais 1 1 10 boxes x 20 bags 18
2 Chang 1 1 24 - 12 oz bottles 19
3 Aniseed Syrup 1 2 12 - 550 ml bottles 10
4 Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning 2 2 48 - 6 oz jars 22
5 Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix 2 2 36 boxes 21.35

MIN() Example
The following SQL statement finds the price of the cheapest product:
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 Example
SELECT MIN(Price) AS SmallestPrice
FROM Products;

MAX() Example
The following SQL statement finds the price of the most expensive product:

Example
SELECT MAX(Price) AS LargestPrice
FROM Products;

Exercise:
Use the MIN function to select the record with the smallest value of the Price column.

SELECT
FROM Products;

Submit Answer »

Start the Exercise

SQL COUNT(), AVG() and SUM() Functions

The SQL COUNT(), AVG() and SUM()

Functions
The COUNT() function returns the number of rows that matches a specified
criterion.

The AVG() function returns the average value of a numeric column.

The SUM() function returns the total sum of a numeric column.

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 COUNT() Syntax
SELECT COUNT(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

AVG() Syntax
SELECT AVG(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

SUM() Syntax
SELECT SUM(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Products" table in the Northwind sample
database:

ProductID ProductName SupplierID CategoryID Unit Price

1 Chais 1 1 10 boxes x 20 bags 18
2 Chang 1 1 24 - 12 oz bottles 19
3 Aniseed Syrup 1 2 12 - 550 ml bottles 10
4 Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning 2 2 48 - 6 oz jars 22
5 Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix 2 2 36 boxes 21.35

COUNT() Example
The following SQL statement finds the number of products:

Example
SELECT COUNT(ProductID)
FROM Products;

Try it Yourself »

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 Note: NULL values are not counted.

AVG() Example
The following SQL statement finds the average price of all products:

Example
SELECT AVG(Price)
FROM Products;

Try it Yourself »

Note: NULL values are ignored.

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "OrderDetails" table in the Northwind sample
database:

OrderDetailID OrderID ProductID Quantity

1 10248 11 12
2 10248 42 10
3 10248 72 5
4 10249 14 9
5 10249 51 40

SUM() Example
The following SQL statement finds the sum of the "Quantity" fields in the
"OrderDetails" table:

Example
SELECT SUM(Quantity)
FROM OrderDetails;

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 Note: NULL values are ignored.

Exercise:
Use the correct function to return the number of records that have
the Price value set to 18.

SELECT (*)
FROM Products
Price = 18;

SQL LIKE Operator

The SQL LIKE Operator
The LIKE operator is used in a WHERE clause to search for a specified pattern in
a column.

There are two wildcards often used in conjunction with the LIKE operator:

• % - The percent sign represents zero, one, or multiple characters

• _ - The underscore represents a single character

Note: MS Access uses an asterisk (*) instead of the percent sign (%), and a
question mark (?) instead of the underscore (_).

The percent sign and the underscore can also be used in combinations!

LIKE Syntax
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE columnN LIKE pattern;
Tip: You can also combine any number of conditions using AND or OR
operators.

Here are some examples showing different LIKE operators with '%' and '_'
wildcards:

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LIKE Operator Description
WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a%' Finds any values that start with "a"
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '%a' Finds any values that end with "a"
WHERE CustomerName LIKE Finds any values that have "or" in any position
'%or%'
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '_r%' Finds any values that have "r" in the second position
WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a_%' Finds any values that start with "a" and are at least 2
characters in length
WHERE CustomerName LIKE Finds any values that start with "a" and are at least 3
'a__%' characters in length
WHERE ContactName LIKE 'a%o' Finds any values that start with "a" and ends with "o"

Demo Database
The table below shows the complete "Customers" table from the Northwind
sample database:

CustomerI CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

D
1 Alfreds Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
Futterkiste
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México D.F. 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución
helados 2222
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos México D.F. 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno 2312
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover London WA1 1DP UK
Sq.
5 Berglunds Christina Berguvsvägen Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
snabbköp Berglund 8
6 Blauer See Hanna Moos Forsterstr. 57 Mannheim 68306 Germany
Delikatessen
7 Blondel père et Frédérique 24, place Strasbourg 67000 France
fils Citeaux Kléber
8 Bólido Comidas Martín Sommer C/ Araquil, 67 Madrid 28023 Spain
preparadas
9 Bon app' Laurence 12, rue des Marseille 13008 France
Lebihans Bouchers
10 Bottom-Dollar Elizabeth 23 Tsawassen Tsawassen T2F 8M4 Canada
Marketse Lincoln Blvd.
11 B's Beverages Victoria Fauntleroy London EC2 5NT UK
Ashworth Circus
12 Cactus Comidas Patricio Cerrito 333 Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
para llevar Simpson

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13 Centro comercial Francisco Sierras de México D.F. 05022 Mexico
Moctezuma Chang Granada 9993
14 Chop-suey Yang Wang Hauptstr. 29 Bern 3012 Switzerland
Chinese
15 Comércio Pedro Afonso Av. dos São Paulo 05432-043 Brazil
Mineiro Lusíadas, 23
16 Consolidated Elizabeth Berkeley London WX1 6LT UK
Holdings Brown Gardens 12
Brewery
17 Drachenblut Sven Ottlieb Walserweg 21 Aachen 52066 Germany
Delikatessend
18 Du monde entier Janine Labrune 67, rue des Nantes 44000 France
Cinquante
Otages
19 Eastern Ann Devon 35 King London WX3 6FW UK
Connection George
20 Ernst Handel Roland Mendel Kirchgasse 6 Graz 8010 Austria
21 Familia Aria Cruz Rua Orós, 92 São Paulo 05442-030 Brazil
Arquibaldo
22 FISSA Fabrica Diego Roel C/ Moralzarzal, Madrid 28034 Spain
Inter. Salchichas 86
S.A.
23 Folies Martine Rancé 184, chaussée Lille 59000 France
gourmandes de Tournai
24 Folk och fä HB Maria Larsson Åkergatan 24 Bräcke S-844 67 Sweden
25 Frankenversand Peter Franken Berliner Platz München 80805 Germany
43
26 France Carine Schmitt 54, rue Royale Nantes 44000 France
restauration
27 Franchi S.p.A. Paolo Accorti Via Monte Torino 10100 Italy
Bianco 34
28 Furia Bacalhau e Lino Rodriguez Jardim das Lisboa 1675 Portugal
Frutos do Mar rosas n. 32
29 Galería del Eduardo Rambla de Barcelona 08022 Spain
gastrónomo Saavedra Cataluña, 23
30 Godos Cocina José Pedro C/ Romero, 33 Sevilla 41101 Spain
Típica Freyre
31 Gourmet André Fonseca Av. Brasil, 442 Campinas 04876-786 Brazil
Lanchonetes
32 Great Lakes Howard Snyder 2732 Baker Eugene 97403 USA
Food Market Blvd.
33 GROSELLA- Manuel Pereira 5ª Ave. Los Caracas 1081 Venezuela
Restaurante Palos Grandes
34 Hanari Carnes Mario Pontes Rua do Paço, Rio de 05454-876 Brazil
67 Janeiro

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35 HILARIÓN- Carlos Carrera 22 con San Cristóbal 5022 Venezuela
Abastos Hernández Ave. Carlos
Soublette #8-35
36 Hungry Coyote Yoshi Latimer City Center Elgin 97827 USA
Import Store Plaza 516 Main
St.
37 Hungry Owl All- Patricia 8 Johnstown Cork Ireland
Night Grocers McKenna Road
38 Island Trading Helen Bennett Garden House Cowes PO31 7PJ UK
Crowther Way
39 Königlich Essen Philip Cramer Maubelstr. 90 Brandenburg 14776 Germany
40 La corne Daniel Tonini 67, avenue de Versailles 78000 France
d'abondance l'Europe
41 La maison d'Asie Annette Roulet 1 rue Alsace- Toulouse 31000 France
Lorraine
42 Laughing Yoshi 1900 Oak St. Vancouver V3F 2K1 Canada
Bacchus Wine Tannamuri
Cellars
43 Lazy K Kountry John Steel 12 Orchestra Walla Walla 99362 USA
Store Terrace
44 Lehmanns Renate Messner Magazinweg 7 Frankfurt 60528 Germany
Marktstand a.M.
45 Let's Stop N Jaime Yorres 87 Polk St. San 94117 USA
Shop Suite 5 Francisco
46 LILA- Carlos Carrera 52 con Barquisimeto 3508 Venezuela
Supermercado González Ave. Bolívar
#65-98 Llano
Largo
47 LINO- Felipe Izquierdo Ave. 5 de I. de 4980 Venezuela
Delicateses Mayo Porlamar Margarita
48 Lonesome Pine Fran Wilson 89 Chiaroscuro Portland 97219 USA
Restaurant Rd.
49 Magazzini Giovanni Via Ludovico il Bergamo 24100 Italy
Alimentari Rovelli Moro 22
Riuniti
50 Maison Dewey Catherine Rue Joseph- Bruxelles B-1180 Belgium
Dewey Bens 532
51 Mère Paillarde Jean Fresnière 43 rue St. Montréal H1J 1C3 Canada
Laurent
52 Morgenstern Alexander Heerstr. 22 Leipzig 04179 Germany
Gesundkost Feuer
53 North/South Simon South House London SW7 1RZ UK
Crowther 300
Queensbridge

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54 Océano Yvonne Ing. Gustavo Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
Atlántico Ltda. Moncada Moncada 8585
Piso 20-A
55 Old World Rene Phillips 2743 Bering St. Anchorage 99508 USA
Delicatessen
56 Ottilies Henriette Mehrheimerstr. Köln 50739 Germany
Käseladen Pfalzheim 369
57 Paris spécialités Marie Bertrand 265, boulevard Paris 75012 France
Charonne
58 Pericles Comidas Guillermo Calle Dr. Jorge México D.F. 05033 Mexico
clásicas Fernández Cash 321
59 Piccolo und Georg Pipps Geislweg 14 Salzburg 5020 Austria
mehr
60 Princesa Isabel Isabel de Castro Estrada da Lisboa 1756 Portugal
Vinhoss saúde n. 58
61 Que Delícia Bernardo Rua da Rio de 02389-673 Brazil
Batista Panificadora, Janeiro
12
62 Queen Cozinha Lúcia Carvalho Alameda dos São Paulo 05487-020 Brazil
Canàrios, 891
63 QUICK-Stop Horst Kloss Taucherstraße Cunewalde 01307 Germany
10
64 Rancho grande Sergio Av. del Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
Gutiérrez Libertador 900
65 Rattlesnake Paula Wilson 2817 Milton Albuquerque 87110 USA
Canyon Grocery Dr.
66 Reggiani Maurizio Strada Reggio 42100 Italy
Caseifici Moroni Provinciale 124 Emilia
67 Ricardo Janete Limeira Av. Rio de 02389-890 Brazil
Adocicados Copacabana, Janeiro
267
68 Richter Michael Holz Grenzacherweg Genève 1203 Switzerland
Supermarkt 237
69 Romero y Alejandra Gran Vía, 1 Madrid 28001 Spain
tomillo Camino
70 Santé Gourmet Jonas Erling Skakkes Stavern 4110 Norway
Bergulfsen gate 78
71 Save-a-lot Jose Pavarotti 187 Suffolk Ln. Boise 83720 USA
Markets
72 Seven Seas Hari Kumar 90 Wadhurst London OX15 4NB UK
Imports Rd.
73 Simons bistro Jytte Petersen Vinbæltet 34 København 1734 Denmark
74 Spécialités du Dominique 25, rue Paris 75016 France
monde Perrier Lauriston
75 Split Rail Beer & Art P.O. Box 555 Lander 82520 USA
Ale Braunschweiger
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76 Suprêmes délices Pascale Cartrain Boulevard Charleroi B-6000 Belgium
Tirou, 255
77 The Big Cheese Liz Nixon 89 Jefferson Portland 97201 USA
Way Suite 2
78 The Cracker Box Liu Wong 55 Grizzly Butte 59801 USA
Peak Rd.
79 Toms Karin Josephs Luisenstr. 48 Münster 44087 Germany
Spezialitäten
80 Tortuga Miguel Angel Avda. Azteca México D.F. 05033 Mexico
Restaurante Paolino 123
81 Tradição Anabela Av. Inês de São Paulo 05634-030 Brazil
Hipermercados Domingues Castro, 414
82 Trail's Head Helvetius Nagy 722 DaVinci Kirkland 98034 USA
Gourmet Blvd.
Provisioners
83 Vaffeljernet Palle Ibsen Smagsløget 45 Århus 8200 Denmark
84 Victuailles en Mary Saveley 2, rue du Lyon 69004 France
stock Commerce
85 Vins et alcools Paul Henriot 59 rue de Reims 51100 France
Chevalier l'Abbaye
86 Die Wandernde Rita Müller Adenauerallee Stuttgart 70563 Germany
Kuh 900
87 Wartian Herkku Pirkko Torikatu 38 Oulu 90110 Finland
Koskitalo
88 Wellington Paula Parente Rua do Resende 08737-363 Brazil
Importadora Mercado, 12
89 White Clover Karl Jablonski 305 - 14th Ave. Seattle 98128 USA
Markets S. Suite 3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Karttunen Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland

SQL LIKE Examples

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName
starting with "a":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a%';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName ending
with "a":

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 Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '%a';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName that
have "or" in any position:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '%or%';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName that
have "r" in the second position:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '_r%';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName that
starts with "a" and are at least 3 characters in length:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a__%';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a ContactName that
starts with "a" and ends with "o":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE ContactName LIKE 'a%o';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName that
does NOT start with "a":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName NOT LIKE 'a%';

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 Test Yourself With Exercises
Exercise:
Select all records where the value of the City column starts with the letter "a".

SELECT * FROM Customers

;

Submit Answer »

Start the Exercise

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 SQL Wildcards
SQL Wildcard Characters
A wildcard character is used to substitute one or more characters in a string.

Wildcard characters are used with the SQL LIKE operator. The LIKE operator is
used in a WHERE clause to search for a specified pattern in a column.

Wildcard Characters in MS Access

Symbol Description Example
* Represents zero or more characters bl* finds bl, black, blue, and blob
? Represents a single character h?t finds hot, hat, and hit
[] Represents any single character within h[oa]t finds hot and hat, but not hit
the brackets
! Represents any character not in the h[!oa]t finds hit, but not hot and hat
brackets
- Represents a range of characters c[a-b]t finds cat and cbt
# Represents any single numeric 2#5 finds 205, 215, 225, 235, 245, 255,
character 265, 275, 285, and 295

Wildcard Characters in SQL Server

Symbol Description Example
% Represents zero or more characters bl% finds bl, black, blue, and blob
_ Represents a single character h_t finds hot, hat, and hit
[] Represents any single character within the h[oa]t finds hot and hat, but not hit
brackets
^ Represents any character not in the h[^oa]t finds hit, but not hot and hat
brackets
- Represents a range of characters c[a-b]t finds cat and cbt

All the wildcards can also be used in combinations!

Here are some examples showing different LIKE operators with '%' and '_'
wildcards:

LIKE Operator Description

WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a%' Finds any values that starts with "a"
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '%a' Finds any values that ends with "a"

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WHERE CustomerName LIKE Finds any values that have "or" in any position
'%or%'
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '_r%' Finds any values that have "r" in the second position
WHERE CustomerName LIKE Finds any values that starts with "a" and are at least 3
'a_%_%' characters in length
WHERE ContactName LIKE 'a%o' Finds any values that starts with "a" and ends with "o"

Demo Database
The table below shows the complete "Customers" table from the Northwind
sample database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México D.F. 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución
helados 2222
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos México D.F. 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno 2312
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover London WA1 1DP UK
Sq.
5 Berglunds Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
snabbköp Berglund
6 Blauer See Hanna Moos Forsterstr. 57 Mannheim 68306 Germany
Delikatessen
7 Blondel père et fils Frédérique 24, place Kléber Strasbourg 67000 France
Citeaux
8 Bólido Comidas Martín Sommer C/ Araquil, 67 Madrid 28023 Spain
preparadas
9 Bon app' Laurence 12, rue des Marseille 13008 France
Lebihans Bouchers
10 Bottom-Dollar Elizabeth 23 Tsawassen Tsawassen T2F 8M4 Canada
Marketse Lincoln Blvd.
11 B's Beverages Victoria Fauntleroy London EC2 5NT UK
Ashworth Circus
12 Cactus Comidas Patricio Cerrito 333 Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
para llevar Simpson
13 Centro comercial Francisco Chang Sierras de México D.F. 05022 Mexico
Moctezuma Granada 9993
14 Chop-suey Yang Wang Hauptstr. 29 Bern 3012 Switzerland
Chinese
15 Comércio Mineiro Pedro Afonso Av. dos São Paulo 05432-043 Brazil
Lusíadas, 23

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16 Consolidated Elizabeth Brown Berkeley London WX1 6LT UK
Holdings Gardens 12
Brewery
17 Drachenblut Sven Ottlieb Walserweg 21 Aachen 52066 Germany
Delikatessend
18 Du monde entier Janine Labrune 67, rue des Nantes 44000 France
Cinquante
Otages
19 Eastern Ann Devon 35 King George London WX3 6FW UK
Connection
20 Ernst Handel Roland Mendel Kirchgasse 6 Graz 8010 Austria
21 Familia Arquibaldo Aria Cruz Rua Orós, 92 São Paulo 05442-030 Brazil
22 FISSA Fabrica Diego Roel C/ Moralzarzal, Madrid 28034 Spain
Inter. Salchichas 86
S.A.
23 Folies gourmandes Martine Rancé 184, chaussée Lille 59000 France
de Tournai
24 Folk och fä HB Maria Larsson Åkergatan 24 Bräcke S-844 67 Sweden
25 Frankenversand Peter Franken Berliner Platz München 80805 Germany
43
26 France Carine Schmitt 54, rue Royale Nantes 44000 France
restauration
27 Franchi S.p.A. Paolo Accorti Via Monte Torino 10100 Italy
Bianco 34
28 Furia Bacalhau e Lino Rodriguez Jardim das Lisboa 1675 Portugal
Frutos do Mar rosas n. 32
29 Galería del Eduardo Rambla de Barcelona 08022 Spain
gastrónomo Saavedra Cataluña, 23
30 Godos Cocina José Pedro C/ Romero, 33 Sevilla 41101 Spain
Típica Freyre
31 Gourmet André Fonseca Av. Brasil, 442 Campinas 04876-786 Brazil
Lanchonetes
32 Great Lakes Food Howard Snyder 2732 Baker Eugene 97403 USA
Market Blvd.
33 GROSELLA- Manuel Pereira 5ª Ave. Los Caracas 1081 Venezuela
Restaurante Palos Grandes
34 Hanari Carnes Mario Pontes Rua do Paço, 67 Rio de 05454-876 Brazil
Janeiro
35 HILARIÓN-Abastos Carlos Carrera 22 con San Cristóbal 5022 Venezuela
Hernández Ave. Carlos
Soublette #8-35
36 Hungry Coyote Yoshi Latimer City Center Elgin 97827 USA
Import Store Plaza 516 Main
St.
37 Hungry Owl All- Patricia 8 Johnstown Cork Ireland
Night Grocers McKenna Road

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38 Island Trading Helen Bennett Garden House Cowes PO31 7PJ UK
Crowther Way
39 Königlich Essen Philip Cramer Maubelstr. 90 Brandenburg 14776 Germany
40 La corne Daniel Tonini 67, avenue de Versailles 78000 France
d'abondance l'Europe
41 La maison d'Asie Annette Roulet 1 rue Alsace- Toulouse 31000 France
Lorraine
42 Laughing Bacchus Yoshi 1900 Oak St. Vancouver V3F 2K1 Canada
Wine Cellars Tannamuri
43 Lazy K Kountry John Steel 12 Orchestra Walla Walla 99362 USA
Store Terrace
44 Lehmanns Renate Messner Magazinweg 7 Frankfurt 60528 Germany
Marktstand a.M.
45 Let's Stop N Shop Jaime Yorres 87 Polk St. Suite San Francisco 94117 USA
5
46 LILA- Carlos González Carrera 52 con Barquisimeto 3508 Venezuela
Supermercado Ave. Bolívar
#65-98 Llano
Largo
47 LINO-Delicateses Felipe Izquierdo Ave. 5 de Mayo I. de 4980 Venezuela
Porlamar Margarita
48 Lonesome Pine Fran Wilson 89 Chiaroscuro Portland 97219 USA
Restaurant Rd.
49 Magazzini Giovanni Rovelli Via Ludovico il Bergamo 24100 Italy
Alimentari Riuniti Moro 22
50 Maison Dewey Catherine Rue Joseph- Bruxelles B-1180 Belgium
Dewey Bens 532
51 Mère Paillarde Jean Fresnière 43 rue St. Montréal H1J 1C3 Canada
Laurent
52 Morgenstern Alexander Feuer Heerstr. 22 Leipzig 04179 Germany
Gesundkost
53 North/South Simon Crowther South House London SW7 1RZ UK
300
Queensbridge
54 Océano Atlántico Yvonne Ing. Gustavo Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
Ltda. Moncada Moncada 8585
Piso 20-A
55 Old World Rene Phillips 2743 Bering St. Anchorage 99508 USA
Delicatessen
56 Ottilies Käseladen Henriette Mehrheimerstr. Köln 50739 Germany
Pfalzheim 369
57 Paris spécialités Marie Bertrand 265, boulevard Paris 75012 France
Charonne
58 Pericles Comidas Guillermo Calle Dr. Jorge México D.F. 05033 Mexico
clásicas Fernández Cash 321
59 Piccolo und mehr Georg Pipps Geislweg 14 Salzburg 5020 Austria

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60 Princesa Isabel Isabel de Castro Estrada da Lisboa 1756 Portugal
Vinhoss saúde n. 58
61 Que Delícia Bernardo Rua da Rio de 02389-673 Brazil
Batista Panificadora, 12 Janeiro
62 Queen Cozinha Lúcia Carvalho Alameda dos São Paulo 05487-020 Brazil
Canàrios, 891
63 QUICK-Stop Horst Kloss Taucherstraße Cunewalde 01307 Germany
10
64 Rancho grande Sergio Gutiérrez Av. del Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
Libertador 900
65 Rattlesnake Paula Wilson 2817 Milton Dr. Albuquerque 87110 USA
Canyon Grocery
66 Reggiani Caseifici Maurizio Strada Reggio Emilia 42100 Italy
Moroni Provinciale 124
67 Ricardo Janete Limeira Av. Rio de 02389-890 Brazil
Adocicados Copacabana, Janeiro
267
68 Richter Michael Holz Grenzacherweg Genève 1203 Switzerland
Supermarkt 237
69 Romero y tomillo Alejandra Gran Vía, 1 Madrid 28001 Spain
Camino
70 Santé Gourmet Jonas Erling Skakkes Stavern 4110 Norway
Bergulfsen gate 78
71 Save-a-lot Markets Jose Pavarotti 187 Suffolk Ln. Boise 83720 USA
72 Seven Seas Hari Kumar 90 Wadhurst London OX15 4NB UK
Imports Rd.
73 Simons bistro Jytte Petersen Vinbæltet 34 København 1734 Denmark
74 Spécialités du Dominique 25, rue Paris 75016 France
monde Perrier Lauriston
75 Split Rail Beer & Art P.O. Box 555 Lander 82520 USA
Ale Braunschweiger
76 Suprêmes délices Pascale Cartrain Boulevard Charleroi B-6000 Belgium
Tirou, 255
77 The Big Cheese Liz Nixon 89 Jefferson Portland 97201 USA
Way Suite 2
78 The Cracker Box Liu Wong 55 Grizzly Peak Butte 59801 USA
Rd.
79 Toms Spezialitäten Karin Josephs Luisenstr. 48 Münster 44087 Germany
80 Tortuga Miguel Angel Avda. Azteca México D.F. 05033 Mexico
Restaurante Paolino 123
81 Tradição Anabela Av. Inês de São Paulo 05634-030 Brazil
Hipermercados Domingues Castro, 414
82 Trail's Head Helvetius Nagy 722 DaVinci Kirkland 98034 USA
Gourmet Blvd.
Provisioners
83 Vaffeljernet Palle Ibsen Smagsløget 45 Århus 8200 Denmark

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84 Victuailles en Mary Saveley 2, rue du Lyon 69004 France
stock Commerce
85 Vins et alcools Paul Henriot 59 rue de Reims 51100 France
Chevalier l'Abbaye
86 Die Wandernde Rita Müller Adenauerallee Stuttgart 70563 Germany
Kuh 900
87 Wartian Herkku Pirkko Koskitalo Torikatu 38 Oulu 90110 Finland
88 Wellington Paula Parente Rua do Resende 08737-363 Brazil
Importadora Mercado, 12
89 White Clover Karl Jablonski 305 - 14th Ave. Seattle 98128 USA
Markets S. Suite 3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Karttunen Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland

Using the % Wildcard

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a City starting with
"ber":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE 'ber%';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a City containing the
pattern "es":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE '%es%';

Using the _ Wildcard

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a City starting with any
character, followed by "ondon":

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SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE '_ondon';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a City starting with "L",
followed by any character, followed by "n", followed by any character, followed
by "on":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE 'L_n_on';

Using the [charlist] Wildcard

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a City starting with "b",
"s", or "p":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE '[bsp]%';

The following SQL statement selects all customers with a City starting with "a",
"b", or "c":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE '[a-c]%';

Using the [!charlist] Wildcard

The two following SQL statements select all customers with a City NOT starting
with "b", "s", or "p":

Example

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 SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City LIKE '[!bsp]%';

Or:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE City NOT LIKE '[bsp]%';

Try it Yourself »

Exercise:
Select all records where the second letter of the City is an "a".

SELECT * FROM Customers

WHERE City LIKE ' %';

SQL IN Operator
The SQL IN Operator
The IN operator allows you to specify multiple values in a WHERE clause.

The IN operator is a shorthand for multiple OR conditions.

IN Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name IN (value1, value2, ...);

or:

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name IN (SELECT STATEMENT);

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 Demo Database
The table below shows the complete "Customers" table from the Northwind
sample database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México D.F. 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución 2222
helados
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México D.F. 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund
6 Blauer See Hanna Moos Forsterstr. 57 Mannheim 68306 Germany
Delikatessen
7 Blondel père et fils Frédérique 24, place Kléber Strasbourg 67000 France
Citeaux
8 Bólido Comidas Martín Sommer C/ Araquil, 67 Madrid 28023 Spain
preparadas
9 Bon app' Laurence 12, rue des Bouchers Marseille 13008 France
Lebihans
10 Bottom-Dollar Elizabeth 23 Tsawassen Blvd. Tsawassen T2F 8M4 Canada
Marketse Lincoln
11 B's Beverages Victoria Fauntleroy Circus London EC2 5NT UK
Ashworth
12 Cactus Comidas Patricio Cerrito 333 Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
para llevar Simpson
13 Centro comercial Francisco Sierras de Granada México D.F. 05022 Mexico
Moctezuma Chang 9993
14 Chop-suey Chinese Yang Wang Hauptstr. 29 Bern 3012 Switzerland
15 Comércio Mineiro Pedro Afonso Av. dos Lusíadas, 23 São Paulo 05432-043 Brazil
16 Consolidated Elizabeth Berkeley Gardens 12 London WX1 6LT UK
Holdings Brown Brewery
17 Drachenblut Sven Ottlieb Walserweg 21 Aachen 52066 Germany
Delikatessend
18 Du monde entier Janine Labrune 67, rue des Cinquante Nantes 44000 France
Otages
19 Eastern Connection Ann Devon 35 King George London WX3 6FW UK
20 Ernst Handel Roland Mendel Kirchgasse 6 Graz 8010 Austria
21 Familia Arquibaldo Aria Cruz Rua Orós, 92 São Paulo 05442-030 Brazil

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22 FISSA Fabrica Inter. Diego Roel C/ Moralzarzal, 86 Madrid 28034 Spain
Salchichas S.A.
23 Folies gourmandes Martine Rancé 184, chaussée de Lille 59000 France
Tournai
24 Folk och fä HB Maria Larsson Åkergatan 24 Bräcke S-844 67 Sweden
25 Frankenversand Peter Franken Berliner Platz 43 München 80805 Germany
26 France restauration Carine Schmitt 54, rue Royale Nantes 44000 France
27 Franchi S.p.A. Paolo Accorti Via Monte Bianco 34 Torino 10100 Italy
28 Furia Bacalhau e Lino Rodriguez Jardim das rosas n. 32 Lisboa 1675 Portugal
Frutos do Mar
29 Galería del Eduardo Rambla de Cataluña, Barcelona 08022 Spain
gastrónomo Saavedra 23
30 Godos Cocina Típica José Pedro C/ Romero, 33 Sevilla 41101 Spain
Freyre
31 Gourmet André Fonseca Av. Brasil, 442 Campinas 04876-786 Brazil
Lanchonetes
32 Great Lakes Food Howard Snyder 2732 Baker Blvd. Eugene 97403 USA
Market
33 GROSELLA- Manuel Pereira 5ª Ave. Los Palos Caracas 1081 Venezuela
Restaurante Grandes
34 Hanari Carnes Mario Pontes Rua do Paço, 67 Rio de Janeiro 05454-876 Brazil
35 HILARIÓN-Abastos Carlos Carrera 22 con Ave. San Cristóbal 5022 Venezuela
Hernández Carlos Soublette #8-35
36 Hungry Coyote Yoshi Latimer City Center Plaza 516 Elgin 97827 USA
Import Store Main St.
37 Hungry Owl All- Patricia 8 Johnstown Road Cork Ireland
Night Grocers McKenna
38 Island Trading Helen Bennett Garden House Cowes PO31 7PJ UK
Crowther Way
39 Königlich Essen Philip Cramer Maubelstr. 90 Brandenburg 14776 Germany
40 La corne Daniel Tonini 67, avenue de l'Europe Versailles 78000 France
d'abondance
41 La maison d'Asie Annette Roulet 1 rue Alsace-Lorraine Toulouse 31000 France
42 Laughing Bacchus Yoshi 1900 Oak St. Vancouver V3F 2K1 Canada
Wine Cellars Tannamuri
43 Lazy K Kountry John Steel 12 Orchestra Terrace Walla Walla 99362 USA
Store
44 Lehmanns Renate Magazinweg 7 Frankfurt 60528 Germany
Marktstand Messner a.M.
45 Let's Stop N Shop Jaime Yorres 87 Polk St. Suite 5 San Francisco 94117 USA
46 LILA-Supermercado Carlos González Carrera 52 con Ave. Barquisimeto 3508 Venezuela
Bolívar #65-98 Llano
Largo
47 LINO-Delicateses Felipe Izquierdo Ave. 5 de Mayo I. de 4980 Venezuela
Porlamar Margarita
48 Lonesome Pine Fran Wilson 89 Chiaroscuro Rd. Portland 97219 USA
Restaurant
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49 Magazzini Giovanni Via Ludovico il Moro Bergamo 24100 Italy
Alimentari Riuniti Rovelli 22
50 Maison Dewey Catherine Rue Joseph-Bens 532 Bruxelles B-1180 Belgium
Dewey
51 Mère Paillarde Jean Fresnière 43 rue St. Laurent Montréal H1J 1C3 Canada
52 Morgenstern Alexander Heerstr. 22 Leipzig 04179 Germany
Gesundkost Feuer
53 North/South Simon South House 300 London SW7 1RZ UK
Crowther Queensbridge
54 Océano Atlántico Yvonne Ing. Gustavo Moncada Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
Ltda. Moncada 8585 Piso 20-A
55 Old World Rene Phillips 2743 Bering St. Anchorage 99508 USA
Delicatessen
56 Ottilies Käseladen Henriette Mehrheimerstr. 369 Köln 50739 Germany
Pfalzheim
57 Paris spécialités Marie Bertrand 265, boulevard Paris 75012 France
Charonne
58 Pericles Comidas Guillermo Calle Dr. Jorge Cash México D.F. 05033 Mexico
clásicas Fernández 321
59 Piccolo und mehr Georg Pipps Geislweg 14 Salzburg 5020 Austria
60 Princesa Isabel Isabel de Castro Estrada da saúde n. 58 Lisboa 1756 Portugal
Vinhoss
61 Que Delícia Bernardo Rua da Panificadora, Rio de Janeiro 02389-673 Brazil
Batista 12
62 Queen Cozinha Lúcia Carvalho Alameda dos Canàrios, São Paulo 05487-020 Brazil
891
63 QUICK-Stop Horst Kloss Taucherstraße 10 Cunewalde 01307 Germany
64 Rancho grande Sergio Av. del Libertador 900 Buenos Aires 1010 Argentina
Gutiérrez
65 Rattlesnake Canyon Paula Wilson 2817 Milton Dr. Albuquerque 87110 USA
Grocery
66 Reggiani Caseifici Maurizio Strada Provinciale 124 Reggio Emilia 42100 Italy
Moroni
67 Ricardo Adocicados Janete Limeira Av. Copacabana, 267 Rio de Janeiro 02389-890 Brazil
68 Richter Supermarkt Michael Holz Grenzacherweg 237 Genève 1203 Switzerland
69 Romero y tomillo Alejandra Gran Vía, 1 Madrid 28001 Spain
Camino
70 Santé Gourmet Jonas Erling Skakkes gate 78 Stavern 4110 Norway
Bergulfsen
71 Save-a-lot Markets Jose Pavarotti 187 Suffolk Ln. Boise 83720 USA
72 Seven Seas Imports Hari Kumar 90 Wadhurst Rd. London OX15 4NB UK
73 Simons bistro Jytte Petersen Vinbæltet 34 København 1734 Denmark
74 Spécialités du Dominique 25, rue Lauriston Paris 75016 France
monde Perrier
75 Split Rail Beer & Ale Art P.O. Box 555 Lander 82520 USA
Braunschweiger
76 Suprêmes délices Pascale Cartrain Boulevard Tirou, 255 Charleroi B-6000 Belgium
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77 The Big Cheese Liz Nixon 89 Jefferson Way Suite Portland 97201 USA
2
78 The Cracker Box Liu Wong 55 Grizzly Peak Rd. Butte 59801 USA
79 Toms Spezialitäten Karin Josephs Luisenstr. 48 Münster 44087 Germany
80 Tortuga Miguel Angel Avda. Azteca 123 México D.F. 05033 Mexico
Restaurante Paolino
81 Tradição Anabela Av. Inês de Castro, 414 São Paulo 05634-030 Brazil
Hipermercados Domingues
82 Trail's Head Helvetius Nagy 722 DaVinci Blvd. Kirkland 98034 USA
Gourmet
Provisioners
83 Vaffeljernet Palle Ibsen Smagsløget 45 Århus 8200 Denmark
84 Victuailles en stock Mary Saveley 2, rue du Commerce Lyon 69004 France
85 Vins et alcools Paul Henriot 59 rue de l'Abbaye Reims 51100 France
Chevalier
86 Die Wandernde Kuh Rita Müller Adenauerallee 900 Stuttgart 70563 Germany
87 Wartian Herkku Pirkko Koskitalo Torikatu 38 Oulu 90110 Finland
88 Wellington Paula Parente Rua do Mercado, 12 Resende 08737-363 Brazil
Importadora
89 White Clover Karl Jablonski 305 - 14th Ave. S. Suite Seattle 98128 USA
Markets 3B
90 Wilman Kala Matti Keskuskatu 45 Helsinki 21240 Finland
Karttunen
91 Wolski Zbyszek ul. Filtrowa 68 Walla 01-012 Poland

IN Operator Examples
The following SQL statement selects all customers that are located in
"Germany", "France" or "UK":

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country IN ('Germany', 'France', 'UK');

Try it Yourself »

The following SQL statement selects all customers that are NOT located in
"Germany", "France" or "UK":

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SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country NOT IN ('Germany', 'France', 'UK');

The following SQL statement selects all customers that are from the same
countries as the suppliers:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE Country IN (SELECT Country FROM Suppliers)

Exercise:
Use the IN operator to select all the records where Country is either "Norway" or
"France".

SELECT * FROM Customers

'France' ;

SQL BETWEEN Operator

The SQL BETWEEN Operator

The BETWEEN operator selects values within a given range. The values can be
numbers, text, or dates.

The BETWEEN operator is inclusive: begin and end values are included.

BETWEEN Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name BETWEEN value1 AND value2;

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 Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Products" table in the Northwind sample
database:

ProductID ProductName SupplierID CategoryID Unit Price

1 Chais 1 1 10 boxes x 20 bags 18
2 Chang 1 1 24 - 12 oz bottles 19
3 Aniseed Syrup 1 2 12 - 550 ml bottles 10
4 Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning 1 2 48 - 6 oz jars 22
5 Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix 1 2 36 boxes 21.35

BETWEEN Example
The following SQL statement selects all products with a price BETWEEN 10 and
20:

Example
SELECT * FROM Products
WHERE Price BETWEEN 10 AND 20;

NOT BETWEEN Example

To display the products outside the range of the previous example, use NOT
BETWEEN:

Example
SELECT * FROM Products
WHERE Price NOT BETWEEN 10 AND 20;

BETWEEN with IN Example

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 The following SQL statement selects all products with a price BETWEEN 10 and
20. In addition; do not show products with a CategoryID of 1,2, or 3:

Example
SELECT * FROM Products
WHERE Price BETWEEN 10 AND 20
AND CategoryID NOT IN (1,2,3);

BETWEEN Text Values Example

The following SQL statement selects all products with a ProductName BETWEEN
Carnarvon Tigers and Mozzarella di Giovanni:

Example
SELECT * FROM Products
WHERE ProductName BETWEEN 'Carnarvon Tigers' AND 'Mozzarella di Giovanni'
ORDER BY ProductName;

The following SQL statement selects all products with a ProductName BETWEEN
Carnarvon Tigers and Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning:

Example
SELECT * FROM Products
WHERE ProductName BETWEEN "Carnarvon Tigers" AND "Chef Anton's Cajun
Seasoning"
ORDER BY ProductName;

NOT BETWEEN Text Values Example

The following SQL statement selects all products with a ProductName NOT
BETWEEN Carnarvon Tigers and Mozzarella di Giovanni:

Example
SELECT * FROM Products
WHERE ProductName NOT BETWEEN 'Carnarvon Tigers' AND 'Mozzarella di
Giovanni'
ORDER BY ProductName;

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 Sample Table
Below is a selection from the "Orders" table in the Northwind sample database:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10248 90 5 7/4/1996 3
10249 81 6 7/5/1996 1
10250 34 4 7/8/1996 2
10251 84 3 7/9/1996 1
10252 76 4 7/10/1996 2

BETWEEN Dates Example

The following SQL statement selects all orders with an OrderDate BETWEEN '01-
July-1996' and '31-July-1996':

Example
SELECT * FROM Orders
WHERE OrderDate BETWEEN #01/07/1996# AND #31/07/1996#;

OR:

Example
SELECT * FROM Orders
WHERE OrderDate BETWEEN '1996-07-01' AND '1996-07-31';

Exercise:
Use the BETWEEN operator to select all the records where the value of the Price column
is between 10 and 20.

SELECT * FROM Products

WHERE Price ;

Submit Answer »

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SQL Aliases
SQL aliases are used to give a table, or a column in a table, a temporary name.

Aliases are often used to make column names more readable.

An alias only exists for the duration of the query.

Alias Column Syntax

SELECT column_name AS alias_name
FROM table_name;

Alias Table Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name AS alias_name;

Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución D.F.
2222
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
Hardy

And a selection from the "Orders" table:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10354 58 8 1996-11-14 3

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10355 4 6 1996-11-15 1
10356 86 6 1996-11-18 2

Alias for Columns Examples

The following SQL statement creates two aliases, one for the CustomerID
column and one for the CustomerName column:

Example
SELECT CustomerID AS ID, CustomerName AS Customer
FROM Customers;

The following SQL statement creates two aliases, one for the CustomerName
column and one for the ContactName column. Note: It requires double
quotation marks or square brackets if the alias name contains spaces:

Example
SELECT CustomerName AS Customer, ContactName AS [Contact Person]
FROM Customers;

The following SQL statement creates an alias named "Address" that combine
four columns (Address, PostalCode, City and Country):

Example
SELECT CustomerName, Address + ', ' + PostalCode + ' ' + City + ', ' +
Country AS Address
FROM Customers;

Note: To get the SQL statement above to work in MySQL use the following:

SELECT CustomerName, CONCAT(Address,', ',PostalCode,', ',City,',

',Country) AS Address
FROM Customers;

Alias for Tables Example

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 The following SQL statement selects all the orders from the customer with
CustomerID=4 (Around the Horn). We use the "Customers" and "Orders"
tables, and give them the table aliases of "c" and "o" respectively (Here we use
aliases to make the SQL shorter):

Example
SELECT o.OrderID, o.OrderDate, c.CustomerName
FROM Customers AS c, Orders AS o
WHERE c.CustomerName='Around the Horn' AND c.CustomerID=o.CustomerID;

The following SQL statement is the same as above, but without aliases:

Example
SELECT Orders.OrderID, Orders.OrderDate, Customers.CustomerName
FROM Customers, Orders
WHERE Customers.CustomerName='Around the
Horn' AND Customers.CustomerID=Orders.CustomerID;

Aliases can be useful when:

• There are more than one table involved in a query

• Functions are used in the query
• Column names are big or not very readable
• Two or more columns are combined together

Test Yourself With Exercises

Exercise:
When displaying the Customers table, make an ALIAS of the PostalCode column, the
column should be called Pno instead.

SELECT CustomerName,
Address,
PostalCode
FROM Customers;

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SQL JOIN
A JOIN clause is used to combine rows from two or more tables, based on a
related column between them.

Let's look at a selection from the "Orders" table:

OrderID CustomerID OrderDate

10308 2 1996-09-18
10309 37 1996-09-19
10310 77 1996-09-20

Then, look at a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados Ana Trujillo Mexico
3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Antonio Moreno Mexico

Notice that the "CustomerID" column in the "Orders" table refers to the
"CustomerID" in the "Customers" table. The relationship between the two tables
above is the "CustomerID" column.

Then, we can create the following SQL statement (that contains an INNER
JOIN), that selects records that have matching values in both tables:

Example
SELECT Orders.OrderID, Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderDate
FROM Orders
INNER JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID;

and it will produce something like this:

OrderID CustomerName OrderDate

10308 Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados 9/18/1996
10365 Antonio Moreno Taquería 11/27/1996
10383 Around the Horn 12/16/1996
10355 Around the Horn 11/15/1996
10278 Berglunds snabbköp 8/12/1996
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 Different Types of SQL JOINs
Here are the different types of the JOINs in SQL:

• (INNER) JOIN: Returns records that have matching values in both

tables
• LEFT (OUTER) JOIN: Returns all records from the left table, and the
matched records from the right table
• RIGHT (OUTER) JOIN: Returns all records from the right table, and the
matched records from the left table
• FULL (OUTER) JOIN: Returns all records when there is a match in either
left or right table

Exercises
Exercise:
Insert the missing parts in the JOIN clause to join the two tables Orders and Customers,
using the CustomerID field in both tables as the relationship between the two tables.

SELECT *

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 FROM Orders
LEFT JOIN Customers
= ;

SQL INNER JOIN Keyword

SQL INNER JOIN Keyword
The INNER JOIN keyword selects records that have matching values in both
tables.

INNER JOIN Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table1
INNER JOIN table2
ON table1.column_name = table2.column_name;

Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Orders" table:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

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 10308 2 7 1996-09-18 3
10309 37 3 1996-09-19 1
10310 77 8 1996-09-20 2

And a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.

SQL INNER JOIN Example

The following SQL statement selects all orders with customer information:

Example
SELECT Orders.OrderID, Customers.CustomerName
FROM Orders
INNER JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID;

Note: The INNER JOIN keyword selects all rows from both tables as long as
there is a match between the columns. If there are records in the "Orders" table
that do not have matches in "Customers", these orders will not be shown!

JOIN Three Tables

The following SQL statement selects all orders with customer and shipper
information:

Example
SELECT Orders.OrderID, Customers.CustomerName, Shippers.ShipperName
FROM ((Orders
INNER JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID)
INNER JOIN Shippers ON Orders.ShipperID = Shippers.ShipperID)

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 Exercise:
Choose the correct JOIN clause to select all records from the two tables where there is
a match in both tables.

SELECT *
FROM Orders

ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID;

SQL LEFT JOIN Keyword

SQL LEFT JOIN Keyword

The LEFT JOIN keyword returns all records from the left table (table1), and the
matched records from the right table (table2). The result is NULL from the right
side, if there is no match.

LEFT JOIN Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2
ON table1.column_name = table2.column_name;

Note: In some databases LEFT JOIN is called LEFT OUTER JOIN.

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 Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.

And a selection from the "Orders" table:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10308 2 7 1996-09-18 3
10309 37 3 1996-09-19 1
10310 77 8 1996-09-20 2

SQL LEFT JOIN Example

The following SQL statement will select all customers, and any orders they
might have:

Example
SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID
FROM Customers
LEFT JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
ORDER BY Customers.CustomerName;

Note: The LEFT JOIN keyword returns all records from the left table
(Customers), even if there are no matches in the right table (Orders).

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 SQL RIGHT JOIN Keyword

SQL RIGHT JOIN Keyword

The RIGHT JOIN keyword returns all records from the right table (table2), and
the matched records from the left table (table1). The result is NULL from the
left side, when there is no match.

RIGHT JOIN Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table1
RIGHT JOIN table2
ON table1.column_name = table2.column_name;

Note: In some databases RIGHT JOIN is called RIGHT OUTER JOIN.

Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Orders" table:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10308 2 7 1996-09-18 3
10309 37 3 1996-09-19 1
10310 77 8 1996-09-20 2

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 And a selection from the "Employees" table:

EmployeeID LastName FirstName BirthDate Photo

1 Davolio Nancy 12/8/1968 EmpID1.pic
2 Fuller Andrew 2/19/1952 EmpID2.pic
3 Leverling Janet 8/30/1963 EmpID3.pic

SQL RIGHT JOIN Example

The following SQL statement will return all employees, and any orders they
might have placed:

Example
SELECT Orders.OrderID, Employees.LastName, Employees.FirstName
FROM Orders
RIGHT JOIN Employees ON Orders.EmployeeID = Employees.EmployeeID
ORDER BY Orders.OrderID;

Note: The RIGHT JOIN keyword returns all records from the right table
(Employees), even if there are no matches in the left table (Orders).

Exercise:
Choose the correct JOIN clause to select all the records from the Customers table plus
all the matches in the Orders table.

SELECT *
FROM Orders

ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID;

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 SQL FULL OUTER JOIN Keyword
SQL FULL OUTER JOIN Keyword
The FULL OUTER JOIN keyword returns all records when there is a match in left
(table1) or right (table2) table records.

Note: FULL OUTER JOIN can potentially return very large result-sets!

Tip: FULL OUTER JOIN and FULL JOIN are the same.

FULL OUTER JOIN Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table1
FULL OUTER JOIN table2
ON table1.column_name = table2.column_name
WHERE condition;

Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados Ana Trujillo Avda. de la Constitución México 05021 Mexico
y helados 2222 D.F.

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3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Moreno D.F.

And a selection from the "Orders" table:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10308 2 7 1996-09-18 3
10309 37 3 1996-09-19 1
10310 77 8 1996-09-20 2

SQL FULL OUTER JOIN Example

The following SQL statement selects all customers, and all orders:

SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID

FROM Customers
FULL OUTER JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerID=Orders.CustomerID
ORDER BY Customers.CustomerName;

A selection from the result set may look like this:

CustomerName OrderID
Alfreds Futterkiste Null
Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados 10308
Antonio Moreno Taquería 10365

Note: The FULL OUTER JOIN keyword returns all matching records from both
tables whether the other table matches or not. So, if there are rows in
"Customers" that do not have matches in "Orders", or if there are rows in
"Orders" that do not have matches in "Customers", those rows will be listed as
well.

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 SQL Self JOIN
SQL Self JOIN
A self JOIN is a regular join, but the table is joined with itself.

Self JOIN Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table1 T1, table1 T2
WHERE condition;

T1 and T2 are different table aliases for the same table.

Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Emparedados Ana Trujillo Avda. de la Constitución México 05021 Mexico
y helados 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Taquería Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Moreno D.F.

SQL Self JOIN Example

The following SQL statement matches customers that are from the same city:

Example
SELECT A.CustomerName AS CustomerName1,
B.CustomerName AS CustomerName2, A.City

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 FROM Customers A, Customers B
WHERE A.CustomerID <> B.CustomerID
AND A.City = B.City
ORDER BY A.City;

SQL UNION Operator

The SQL UNION Operator
The UNION operator is used to combine the result-set of two or more SELECT
statements.

• Each SELECT statement within UNION must have the same number of
columns
• The columns must also have similar data types
• The columns in each SELECT statement must also be in the same order

UNION Syntax
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table1
UNION
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table2;

UNION ALL Syntax

The UNION operator selects only distinct values by default. To allow duplicate
values, use UNION ALL:

SELECT column_name(s) FROM table1

UNION ALL
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table2;

Note: The column names in the result-set are usually equal to the column
names in the first SELECT statement in the UNION.

Demo Database
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 In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y Constitución 2222 D.F.
helados
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.

And a selection from the "Suppliers" table:

SupplierID SupplierName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Exotic Liquid Charlotte 49 Gilbert St. London EC1 4SD UK
Cooper
2 New Orleans Cajun Shelley Burke P.O. Box New 70117 USA
Delights 78934 Orleans
3 Grandma Kelly's Regina Murphy 707 Oxford Ann Arbor 48104 USA
Homestead Rd.

SQL UNION Example

The following SQL statement returns the cities (only distinct values) from both
the "Customers" and the "Suppliers" table:

Example
SELECT City FROM Customers
UNION
SELECT City FROM Suppliers
ORDER BY City;
Try it Yourself »

Note: If some customers or suppliers have the same city, each city will only be
listed once, because UNION selects only distinct values. Use UNION ALL to also
select duplicate values!

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 SQL UNION ALL Example
The following SQL statement returns the cities (duplicate values also) from both
the "Customers" and the "Suppliers" table:

Example
SELECT City FROM Customers
UNION ALL
SELECT City FROM Suppliers
ORDER BY City;

SQL UNION With WHERE

The following SQL statement returns the German cities (only distinct values)
from both the "Customers" and the "Suppliers" table:

Example
SELECT City, Country FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany'
UNION
SELECT City, Country FROM Suppliers
WHERE Country='Germany'
ORDER BY City;

SQL UNION ALL With WHERE

The following SQL statement returns the German cities (duplicate values also)
from both the "Customers" and the "Suppliers" table:

Example
SELECT City, Country FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany'
UNION ALL
SELECT City, Country FROM Suppliers
WHERE Country='Germany'
ORDER BY City;

Another UNION Example

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 The following SQL statement lists all customers and suppliers:

Example
SELECT 'Customer' AS Type, ContactName, City, Country
FROM Customers
UNION
SELECT 'Supplier', ContactName, City, Country
FROM Suppliers;

Notice the "AS Type" above - it is an alias. SQL Aliases are used to give a table
or a column a temporary name. An alias only exists for the duration of the
query. So, here we have created a temporary column named "Type", that list
whether the contact person is a "Customer" or a "Supplier".

SQL GROUP BY Statement

The SQL GROUP BY Statement
The GROUP BY statement groups rows that have the same values into summary
rows, like "find the number of customers in each country".

The GROUP BY statement is often used with aggregate functions (COUNT, MAX,
MIN, SUM, AVG) to group the result-set by one or more columns.

GROUP BY Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
GROUP BY column_name(s)
ORDER BY column_name(s);

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:
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CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country
1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la Constitución México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

SQL GROUP BY Examples

The following SQL statement lists the number of customers in each country:

Example
SELECT COUNT(CustomerID), Country
FROM Customers
GROUP BY Country;

The following SQL statement lists the number of customers in each country,
sorted high to low:

Example
SELECT COUNT(CustomerID), Country
FROM Customers
GROUP BY Country
ORDER BY COUNT(CustomerID) DESC

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Orders" table in the Northwind sample database:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10248 90 5 1996-07-04 3
10249 81 6 1996-07-05 1
10250 34 4 1996-07-08 2

And a selection from the "Shippers" table:

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 ShipperID ShipperName
1 Speedy Express
2 United Package
3 Federal Shipping

GROUP BY With JOIN Example

The following SQL statement lists the number of orders sent by each shipper:

Example
SELECT Shippers.ShipperName, COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders FROM
Orders
LEFT JOIN Shippers ON Orders.ShipperID = Shippers.ShipperID
GROUP BY ShipperName;

Exercise:
List the number of customers in each country.

SELECT (CustomerID),
Country
FROM Customers
;

SQL HAVING Clause

The SQL HAVING Clause
The HAVING clause was added to SQL because the WHERE keyword could not
be used with aggregate functions.

HAVING Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
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 WHERE condition
GROUP BY column_name(s)
HAVING condition
ORDER BY column_name(s);

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

SQL HAVING Examples

The following SQL statement lists the number of customers in each country.
Only include countries with more than 5 customers:

Example
SELECT COUNT(CustomerID), Country
FROM Customers
GROUP BY Country
HAVING COUNT(CustomerID) > 5;

Try it Yourself »

The following SQL statement lists the number of customers in each country,
sorted high to low (Only include countries with more than 5 customers):

Example
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 SELECT COUNT(CustomerID), Country
FROM Customers
GROUP BY Country
HAVING COUNT(CustomerID) > 5
ORDER BY COUNT(CustomerID) DESC;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Orders" table in the Northwind sample database:

OrderID CustomerID EmployeeID OrderDate ShipperID

10248 90 5 1996-07-04 3
10249 81 6 1996-07-05 1
10250 34 4 1996-07-08 2

And a selection from the "Employees" table:

EmployeeID LastName FirstName BirthDate Photo Notes

1 Davolio Nancy 1968-12-08 EmpID1.pic Education includes a BA....
2 Fuller Andrew 1952-02-19 EmpID2.pic Andrew received his BTS....
3 Leverling Janet 1963-08-30 EmpID3.pic Janet has a BS degree....

More HAVING Examples

The following SQL statement lists the employees that have registered more than
10 orders:

Example
SELECT Employees.LastName, COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders
FROM (Orders
INNER JOIN Employees ON Orders.EmployeeID = Employees.EmployeeID)
GROUP BY LastName
HAVING COUNT(Orders.OrderID) > 10;

The following SQL statement lists if the employees "Davolio" or "Fuller" have
registered more than 25 orders:

Example

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 SELECT Employees.LastName, COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders
FROM Orders
INNER JOIN Employees ON Orders.EmployeeID = Employees.EmployeeID
WHERE LastName = 'Davolio' OR LastName = 'Fuller'
GROUP BY LastName
HAVING COUNT(Orders.OrderID) > 25;

SQL EXISTS Operator

The SQL EXISTS Operator
The EXISTS operator is used to test for the existence of any record in a
subquery.

The EXISTS operator returns true if the subquery returns one or more records.

EXISTS Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT column_name FROM table_name WHERE condition);

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Products" table in the Northwind sample
database:

ProductID ProductName SupplierID CategoryID Unit Price

1 Chais 1 1 10 boxes x 20 bags 18
2 Chang 1 1 24 - 12 oz bottles 19
3 Aniseed Syrup 1 2 12 - 550 ml bottles 10
4 Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning 2 2 48 - 6 oz jars 22
5 Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix 2 2 36 boxes 21.35

And a selection from the "Suppliers" table:

SupplierID SupplierName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Exotic Liquid Charlotte 49 Gilbert St. London EC1 4SD UK
Cooper
2 New Orleans Cajun Delights Shelley Burke P.O. Box 78934 New Orleans 70117 USA
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3 Grandma Kelly's Homestead Regina Murphy 707 Oxford Rd. Ann Arbor 48104 USA
4 Tokyo Traders Yoshi Nagase 9-8 Sekimai Tokyo 100 Japan
Musashino-shi

SQL EXISTS Examples

The following SQL statement returns TRUE and lists the suppliers with a product
price less than 20:

Example
SELECT SupplierName
FROM Suppliers
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT ProductName FROM Products WHERE Products.SupplierID =
Suppliers.supplierID AND Price < 20);

The following SQL statement returns TRUE and lists the suppliers with a product
price equal to 22:

Example
SELECT SupplierName
FROM Suppliers
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT ProductName FROM Products WHERE Products.SupplierID =
Suppliers.supplierID AND Price = 22);

SQL ANY and ALL Operators

The SQL ANY and ALL Operators
The ANY and ALL operators are used with a WHERE or HAVING clause.

The ANY operator returns true if any of the subquery values meet the condition.

The ALL operator returns true if all of the subquery values meet the condition.

ANY Syntax

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 SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator ANY
(SELECT column_name FROM table_name WHERE condition);

ALL Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator ALL
(SELECT column_name FROM table_name WHERE condition);

Note: The operator must be a standard comparison operator (=, <>, !=, >,
>=, <, or <=).

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Products" table in the Northwind sample
database:

ProductID ProductName SupplierID CategoryID Unit Price

1 Chais 1 1 10 boxes x 20 bags 18
2 Chang 1 1 24 - 12 oz bottles 19
3 Aniseed Syrup 1 2 12 - 550 ml bottles 10
4 Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning 2 2 48 - 6 oz jars 22
5 Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix 2 2 36 boxes 21.35

And a selection from the "OrderDetails" table:

OrderDetailID OrderID ProductID Quantity

1 10248 11 12
2 10248 42 10
3 10248 72 5
4 10249 14 9
5 10249 51 40

SQL ANY Examples

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 The ANY operator returns TRUE if any of the subquery values meet the
condition.

The following SQL statement returns TRUE and lists the product names if it finds
ANY records in the OrderDetails table that quantity = 10:

Example
SELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ANY (SELECT ProductID FROM OrderDetails WHERE Quantity
= 10);

The following SQL statement returns TRUE and lists the product names if it finds
ANY records in the OrderDetails table that quantity > 99:

Example
SELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ANY (SELECT ProductID FROM OrderDetails WHERE Quantity
> 99);

SQL ALL Example

The ALL operator returns TRUE if all of the subquery values meet the condition.

The following SQL statement returns TRUE and lists the product names if ALL
the records in the OrderDetails table has quantity = 10 (so, this example will
return FALSE, because not ALL records in the OrderDetails table has quantity =
10):

Example
SELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ALL (SELECT ProductID FROM OrderDetails WHERE Quantity
= 10);

SQL SELECT INTO Statement

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 The SQL SELECT INTO Statement
The SELECT INTO statement copies data from one table into a new table.

SELECT INTO Syntax

Copy all columns into a new table:

SELECT *
INTO newtable [IN externaldb]
FROM oldtable
WHERE condition;

Copy only some columns into a new table:

SELECT column1, column2, column3, ...

INTO newtable [IN externaldb]
FROM oldtable
WHERE condition;

The new table will be created with the column-names and types as defined in
the old table. You can create new column names using the AS clause.

SQL SELECT INTO Examples

The following SQL statement creates a backup copy of Customers:

SELECT * INTO CustomersBackup2017

FROM Customers;

The following SQL statement uses the IN clause to copy the table into a new
table in another database:

SELECT * INTO CustomersBackup2017 IN 'Backup.mdb'

FROM Customers;

The following SQL statement copies only a few columns into a new table:

SELECT CustomerName, ContactName INTO CustomersBackup2017

FROM Customers;
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 The following SQL statement copies only the German customers into a new
table:

SELECT * INTO CustomersGermany

FROM Customers
WHERE Country = 'Germany';

The following SQL statement copies data from more than one table into a new
table:

SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID

INTO CustomersOrderBackup2017
FROM Customers
LEFT JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID;

Tip: SELECT INTO can also be used to create a new, empty table using the
schema of another. Just add a WHERE clause that causes the query to return no
data:

SELECT * INTO newtable

FROM oldtable
WHERE 1 = 0;

SQL INSERT INTO

SELECT Statement
The SQL INSERT INTO SELECT Statement
The INSERT INTO SELECT statement copies data from one table and inserts it
into another table.

• INSERT INTO SELECT requires that data types in source and target tables
match
• The existing records in the target table are unaffected

INSERT INTO SELECT Syntax

Copy all columns from one table to another table:
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 INSERT INTO table2
SELECT * FROM table1
WHERE condition;

Copy only some columns from one table into another table:

INSERT INTO table2 (column1, column2, column3, ...)

SELECT column1, column2, column3, ...
FROM table1
WHERE condition;

Demo Database
In this tutorial we will use the well-known Northwind sample database.

Below is a selection from the "Customers" table:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados Constitución 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.

And a selection from the "Suppliers" table:

SupplierID SupplierName ContactName Address City Postal Code Country

1 Exotic Liquid Charlotte 49 Gilbert St. Londona EC1 4SD UK
Cooper
2 New Orleans Cajun Shelley Burke P.O. Box New 70117 USA
Delights 78934 Orleans
3 Grandma Kelly's Regina 707 Oxford Ann 48104 USA
Homestead Murphy Rd. Arbor

SQL INSERT INTO SELECT Examples

The following SQL statement copies "Suppliers" into "Customers" (the columns
that are not filled with data, will contain NULL):

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 Example
INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName, City, Country)
SELECT SupplierName, City, Country FROM Suppliers;

The following SQL statement copies "Suppliers" into "Customers" (fill all
columns):

Example
INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName, ContactName, Address, City,
PostalCode, Country)
SELECT SupplierName, ContactName, Address, City,
PostalCode, Country FROM Suppliers;

The following SQL statement copies only the German suppliers into
"Customers":

Example
INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName, City, Country)
SELECT SupplierName, City, Country FROM Suppliers
WHERE Country='Germany';

SQL CASE Statement

The SQL CASE Statement
The CASE statement goes through conditions and returns a value when the first
condition is met (like an IF-THEN-ELSE statement). So, once a condition is true,
it will stop reading and return the result. If no conditions are true, it returns the
value in the ELSE clause.

If there is no ELSE part and no conditions are true, it returns NULL.

CASE Syntax
CASE
WHEN condition1 THEN result1
WHEN condition2 THEN result2

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 WHEN conditionN THEN resultN
ELSE result
END;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "OrderDetails" table in the Northwind sample
database:

OrderDetailID OrderID ProductID Quantity

1 10248 11 12
2 10248 42 10
3 10248 72 5
4 10249 14 9
5 10249 51 40

SQL CASE Examples

The following SQL goes through conditions and returns a value when the first
condition is met:

Example
SELECT OrderID, Quantity,
CASE
WHEN Quantity > 30 THEN 'The quantity is greater than 30'
WHEN Quantity = 30 THEN 'The quantity is 30'
ELSE 'The quantity is under 30'
END AS QuantityText
FROM OrderDetails;

The following SQL will order the customers by City. However, if City is NULL,
then order by Country:

Example
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 SELECT CustomerName, City, Country
FROM Customers
ORDER BY
(CASE
WHEN City IS NULL THEN Country
ELSE City
END);

SQL NULL Functions

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SQL IFNULL(), ISNULL(), COALESCE(), and

NVL() Functions
Look at the following "Products" table:

P_Id ProductName UnitPrice UnitsInStock UnitsOnOrder

1 Jarlsberg 10.45 16 15
2 Mascarpone 32.56 23
3 Gorgonzola 15.67 9 20

Suppose that the "UnitsOnOrder" column is optional, and may contain NULL
values.

Look at the following SELECT statement:

SELECT ProductName, UnitPrice * (UnitsInStock + UnitsOnOrder)

FROM Products;

In the example above, if any of the "UnitsOnOrder" values are NULL, the result
will be NULL.

Solutions

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The MySQL IFNULL() function lets you return an alternative value if an

expression is NULL:

SELECT ProductName, UnitPrice * (UnitsInStock + IFNULL(UnitsOnOrder, 0))

FROM Products;

or we can use the COALESCE() function, like this:

SELECT ProductName, UnitPrice * (UnitsInStock + COALESCE(UnitsOnOrder, 0))

FROM Products;

SQL Server

The SQL Server ISNULL() function lets you return an alternative value when an
expression is NULL:

SELECT ProductName, UnitPrice * (UnitsInStock + ISNULL(UnitsOnOrder, 0))

FROM Products;

MS Access

The MS Access IsNull() function returns TRUE (-1) if the expression is a null
value, otherwise FALSE (0):

SELECT ProductName, UnitPrice * (UnitsInStock +

IIF(IsNull(UnitsOnOrder), 0, UnitsOnOrder))
FROM Products;

Oracle

The Oracle NVL() function achieves the same result:

SELECT ProductName, UnitPrice * (UnitsInStock + NVL(UnitsOnOrder, 0))

FROM Products;

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Server
What is a Stored Procedure?
A stored procedure is a prepared SQL code that you can save, so the code can
be reused over and over again.

So if you have an SQL query that you write over and over again, save it as a
stored procedure, and then just call it to execute it.

You can also pass parameters to a stored procedure, so that the stored
procedure can act based on the parameter value(s) that is passed.

Stored Procedure Syntax

CREATE PROCEDURE procedure_name
AS
sql_statement
GO;

Execute a Stored Procedure

EXEC procedure_name;

Demo Database
Below is a selection from the "Customers" table in the Northwind sample
database:

CustomerID CustomerName ContactName Address City PostalCode Country

1 Alfreds Futterkiste Maria Anders Obere Str. 57 Berlin 12209 Germany
2 Ana Trujillo Ana Trujillo Avda. de la Constitución México 05021 Mexico
Emparedados y helados 2222 D.F.
3 Antonio Moreno Antonio Mataderos 2312 México 05023 Mexico
Taquería Moreno D.F.
4 Around the Horn Thomas Hardy 120 Hanover Sq. London WA1 1DP UK
5 Berglunds snabbköp Christina Berguvsvägen 8 Luleå S-958 22 Sweden
Berglund

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 Stored Procedure Example
The following SQL statement creates a stored procedure named
"SelectAllCustomers" that selects all records from the "Customers" table:

Example
CREATE PROCEDURE SelectAllCustomers
AS
SELECT * FROM Customers
GO;

Execute the stored procedure above as follows:

Example
EXEC SelectAllCustomers;

Stored Procedure With One Parameter

The following SQL statement creates a stored procedure that selects Customers
from a particular City from the "Customers" table:

Example
CREATE PROCEDURE SelectAllCustomers @City nvarchar(30)
AS
SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE City = @City
GO;

Execute the stored procedure above as follows:

Example
EXEC SelectAllCustomers @City = 'London';

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 Stored Procedure With Multiple Parameters
Setting up multiple parameters is very easy. Just list each parameter and the
data type separated by a comma as shown below.

The following SQL statement creates a stored procedure that selects Customers
from a particular City with a particular PostalCode from the "Customers" table:

Example
CREATE PROCEDURE SelectAllCustomers @City nvarchar(30), @PostalCode
nvarchar(10)
AS
SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE City = @City AND PostalCode = @PostalCode
GO;

Execute the stored procedure above as follows:

Example
EXEC SelectAllCustomers @City = 'London', @PostalCode = 'WA1 1DP';

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SQL Comments
Comments are used to explain sections of SQL statements, or to prevent
execution of SQL statements.

Note: The examples in this chapter will not work in Firefox and
Microsoft Edge!

Comments are not supported in Microsoft Access databases. Firefox and

Microsoft Edge are using Microsoft Access database in our examples.

Single Line Comments

Single line comments start with --.

Any text between -- and the end of the line will be ignored (will not be
executed).

The following example uses a single-line comment as an explanation:

Example
--Select all:
SELECT * FROM Customers;

The following example uses a single-line comment to ignore the end of a line:

Example
SELECT * FROM Customers -- WHERE City='Berlin';

The following example uses a single-line comment to ignore a statement:

Example

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 --SELECT * FROM Customers;
SELECT * FROM Products;

Multi-line Comments
Multi-line comments start with /* and end with */.

Any text between /* and */ will be ignored.

The following example uses a multi-line comment as an explanation:

Example
/*Select all the columns
of all the records
in the Customers table:*/
SELECT * FROM Customers;

The following example uses a multi-line comment to ignore many statements:

Example
/*SELECT * FROM Customers;
SELECT * FROM Products;
SELECT * FROM Orders;
SELECT * FROM Categories;*/
SELECT * FROM Suppliers;

To ignore just a part of a statement, also use the /* */ comment.

The following example uses a comment to ignore part of a line:

Example
SELECT CustomerName, /*City,*/ Country FROM Customers;

The following example uses a comment to ignore part of a statement:

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 Example
SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE (CustomerName LIKE 'L%'
OR CustomerName LIKE 'R%' /*OR CustomerName LIKE 'S%'
OR CustomerName LIKE 'T%'*/ OR CustomerName LIKE 'W%')
AND Country='USA'
ORDER BY CustomerName;

SQL Operators
SQL Arithmetic Operators
Operator Description
+ Add
- Subtract
* Multiply
/ Divide
% Modulo

SQL Bitwise Operators

Operator Description
& Bitwise AND
| Bitwise OR
^ Bitwise exclusive OR

SQL Comparison Operators

Operator Description
= Equal to
> Greater than
< Less than
>= Greater than or equal to

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 <= Less than or equal to
<> Not equal to

SQL Compound Operators

Operator Description
+= Add equals
-= Subtract equals
*= Multiply equals
/= Divide equals
%= Modulo equals
&= Bitwise AND equals
^-= Bitwise exclusive equals
|*= Bitwise OR equals

SQL Logical Operators

Operator Description
ALL TRUE if all of the subquery values meet the
condition
AND TRUE if all the conditions separated by AND
is TRUE
ANY TRUE if any of the subquery values meet
the condition
BETWEEN TRUE if the operand is within the range of
comparisons
EXISTS TRUE if the subquery returns one or more
records
IN TRUE if the operand is equal to one of a list
of expressions
LIKE TRUE if the operand matches a pattern
NOT Displays a record if the condition(s) is NOT
TRUE
OR TRUE if any of the conditions separated by
OR is TRUE
SOME TRUE if any of the subquery values meet
the condition
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DATABASE Statement
The SQL CREATE DATABASE Statement
The CREATE DATABASE statement is used to create a new SQL database.

Syntax
CREATE DATABASE databasename;

CREATE DATABASE Example

The following SQL statement creates a database called "testDB":

Example
CREATE DATABASE testDB;

Tip: Make sure you have admin privilege before creating any database. Once a
database is created, you can check it in the list of databases with the following
SQL command: SHOW DATABASES;

Exercise:
Write the correct SQL statement to create a new database called testDB.

SQL DROP DATABASE Statement

The SQL DROP DATABASE Statement

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 The DROP DATABASE statement is used to drop an existing SQL database.

Syntax
DROP DATABASE databasename;

Note: Be careful before dropping a database. Deleting a database will result in

loss of complete information stored in the database!

DROP DATABASE Example

The following SQL statement drops the existing database "testDB":

Example
DROP DATABASE testDB;

Tip: Make sure you have admin privilege before dropping any database. Once a
database is dropped, you can check it in the list of databases with the following
SQL command: SHOW DATABASES;

ercises
Exercise:
Write the correct SQL statement to delete a database named testDB.

SQL BACKUP DATABASE for SQL

Server

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 The SQL BACKUP DATABASE Statement
The BACKUP DATABASE statement is used in SQL Server to create a full back up
of an existing SQL database.

Syntax
BACKUP DATABASE databasename
TO DISK = 'filepath';

The SQL BACKUP WITH DIFFERENTIAL

Statement
A differential back up only backs up the parts of the database that have
changed since the last full database backup.

Syntax
BACKUP DATABASE databasename
TO DISK = 'filepath'
WITH DIFFERENTIAL;

BACKUP DATABASE Example

The following SQL statement creates a full back up of the existing database
"testDB" to the D disk:

Example
BACKUP DATABASE testDB
TO DISK = 'D:\backups\testDB.bak';

Tip: Always back up the database to a different drive than the actual database.
Then, if you get a disk crash, you will not lose your backup file along with the
database.

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 BACKUP WITH DIFFERENTIAL Example
The following SQL statement creates a differential back up of the database
"testDB":

Example
BACKUP DATABASE testDB
TO DISK = 'D:\backups\testDB.bak'
WITH DIFFERENTIAL;

Tip: A differential back up reduces the back up time (since only the changes are
backed up).

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The SQL CREATE TABLE Statement
The CREATE TABLE statement is used to create a new table in a database.

Syntax
CREATE TABLE table_name (
column1 datatype,
column2 datatype,
column3 datatype,
....
);

The column parameters specify the names of the columns of the table.

The datatype parameter specifies the type of data the column can hold (e.g.
varchar, integer, date, etc.).

Tip: For an overview of the available data types, go to our complete Data Types
Reference.

SQL CREATE TABLE Example

The following example creates a table called "Persons" that contains five
columns: PersonID, LastName, FirstName, Address, and City:

Example
CREATE TABLE Persons (
PersonID int,
LastName varchar(255),
FirstName varchar(255),
Address varchar(255),
City varchar(255)
);

The PersonID column is of type int and will hold an integer.

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 The LastName, FirstName, Address, and City columns are of type varchar and
will hold characters, and the maximum length for these fields is 255 characters.

The empty "Persons" table will now look like this:

PersonID LastName FirstName Address City

Tip: The empty "Persons" table can now be filled with data with the
SQL INSERT INTO statement.

Create Table Using Another Table

A copy of an existing table can also be created using CREATE TABLE.

The new table gets the same column definitions. All columns or specific columns
can be selected.

If you create a new table using an existing table, the new table will be filled
with the existing values from the old table.

Syntax
CREATE TABLE new_table_name AS
SELECT column1, column2,...
FROM existing_table_name
WHERE ....;

The following SQL creates a new table called "TestTables" (which is a copy of
the "Customers" table):

Example
CREATE TABLE TestTable AS
SELECT customername, contactname
FROM customers;

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 Exercise:
Write the correct SQL statement to create a new table called Persons.

(
PersonID int,
LastName varchar(255),
FirstName varchar(255),
Address varchar(255),
City varchar(255)
);

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The SQL DROP TABLE Statement
The DROP TABLE statement is used to drop an existing table in a database.

Syntax
DROP TABLE table_name;

Note: Be careful before dropping a table. Deleting a table will result in loss of
complete information stored in the table!

SQL DROP TABLE Example

The following SQL statement drops the existing table "Shippers":

Example
DROP TABLE Shippers;

SQL TRUNCATE TABLE

The TRUNCATE TABLE statement is used to delete the data inside a table, but
not the table itself.

Syntax
TRUNCATE TABLE table_name;

Exercise:
Write the correct SQL statement to delete a table called Persons.

Persons;

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 SQL ALTER TABLE Statement

SQL ALTER TABLE Statement

The ALTER TABLE statement is used to add, delete, or modify columns in an
existing table.

The ALTER TABLE statement is also used to add and drop various constraints on
an existing table.

ALTER TABLE - ADD Column

To add a column in a table, use the following syntax:

ALTER TABLE table_name

ADD column_name datatype;

The following SQL adds an "Email" column to the "Customers" table:

Example
ALTER TABLE Customers
ADD Email varchar(255);

ALTER TABLE - DROP COLUMN

To delete a column in a table, use the following syntax (notice that some
database systems don't allow deleting a column):

ALTER TABLE table_name

DROP COLUMN column_name;

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 The following SQL deletes the "Email" column from the "Customers" table:

Example
ALTER TABLE Customers
DROP COLUMN Email;

ALTER TABLE - ALTER/MODIFY COLUMN

To change the data type of a column in a table, use the following syntax:

SQL Server / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE table_name

ALTER COLUMN column_name datatype;

My SQL / Oracle (prior version 10G):

ALTER TABLE table_name

MODIFY COLUMN column_name datatype;

Oracle 10G and later:

ALTER TABLE table_name

MODIFY column_name datatype;

SQL ALTER TABLE Example

Look at the "Persons" table:

ID LastName FirstName Address City

1 Hansen Ola Timoteivn 10 Sandnes
2 Svendson Tove Borgvn 23 Sandnes
3 Pettersen Kari Storgt 20 Stavanger

Now we want to add a column named "DateOfBirth" in the "Persons" table.

We use the following SQL statement:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD DateOfBirth date;

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 Notice that the new column, "DateOfBirth", is of type date and is going to hold a
date. The data type specifies what type of data the column can hold. For a
complete reference of all the data types available in MS Access, MySQL, and
SQL Server, go to our complete Data Types reference.

The "Persons" table will now look like this:

ID LastName FirstName Address City DateOfBirth

1 Hansen Ola Timoteivn 10 Sandnes
2 Svendson Tove Borgvn 23 Sandnes
3 Pettersen Kari Storgt 20 Stavanger

Change Data Type Example

Now we want to change the data type of the column named "DateOfBirth" in the
"Persons" table.

We use the following SQL statement:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ALTER COLUMN DateOfBirth year;

Notice that the "DateOfBirth" column is now of type year and is going to hold a
year in a two- or four-digit format.

DROP COLUMN Example

Next, we want to delete the column named "DateOfBirth" in the "Persons" table.

We use the following SQL statement:

ALTER TABLE Persons

DROP COLUMN DateOfBirth;

The "Persons" table will now look like this:

ID LastName FirstName Address City

1 Hansen Ola Timoteivn 10 Sandnes
2 Svendson Tove Borgvn 23 Sandnes
3 Pettersen Kari Storgt 20 Stavanger

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 Exercise:
Add a column of type DATE called Birthday.

Persons
;

SQL Constraints
SQL constraints are used to specify rules for data in a table.

SQL Create Constraints

Constraints can be specified when the table is created with the CREATE TABLE
statement, or after the table is created with the ALTER TABLE statement.

Syntax
CREATE TABLE table_name (
column1 datatype constraint,
column2 datatype constraint,
column3 datatype constraint,
....
);

SQL Constraints
SQL constraints are used to specify rules for the data in a table.

Constraints 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 table. If there is any
violation between the constraint and the data action, the action is aborted.

Constraints can be column level or table level. Column level constraints apply to
a column, and table level constraints apply to the whole table.

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 The following constraints are commonly used in SQL:

• NOT NULL - Ensures that a column cannot have a NULL value

• UNIQUE - Ensures that all values in a column are different
• PRIMARY KEY - A combination of a NOT NULL and UNIQUE. Uniquely
identifies each row in a table
• FOREIGN KEY - Uniquely identifies a row/record in another table
• CHECK - Ensures that all values in a column satisfies a specific condition
• DEFAULT - Sets a default value for a column when no value is specified
• INDEX - Used to create and retrieve data from the database very quickly

SQL NOT NULL Constraint

SQL NOT NULL Constraint
By default, a column can hold NULL values.

The NOT NULL constraint enforces a column to NOT accept NULL values.

This enforces a field to always contain a value, which means that you cannot
insert a new record, or update a record without adding a value to this field.

SQL NOT NULL on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL ensures that the "ID", "LastName", and "FirstName" columns
will NOT accept NULL values when the "Persons" table is created:

Example
CREATE TABLE Persons (
ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
Age int
);

SQL NOT NULL on ALTER TABLE

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 To create a NOT NULL constraint on the "Age" column when the "Persons" table
is already created, use the following SQL:

ALTER TABLE Persons

MODIFY Age int NOT NULL;

SQL UNIQUE Constraint

SQL UNIQUE Constraint
The UNIQUE constraint ensures that all values in a column are different.

Both the UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints provide a guarantee for
uniqueness for a column or set of columns.

A PRIMARY KEY constraint automatically has a UNIQUE constraint.

However, you can have many UNIQUE constraints per table, but only one
PRIMARY KEY constraint per table.

SQL UNIQUE Constraint on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL creates a UNIQUE constraint on the "ID" column when the
"Persons" table is created:

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL UNIQUE,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int
);

MySQL:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
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 LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
UNIQUE (ID)
);

To name a UNIQUE constraint, and to define a UNIQUE constraint on multiple

columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
CONSTRAINT UC_Person UNIQUE (ID,LastName)
);

SQL UNIQUE Constraint on ALTER TABLE

To create a UNIQUE constraint on the "ID" column when the table is already
created, use the following SQL:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD UNIQUE (ID);

To name a UNIQUE constraint, and to define a UNIQUE constraint on multiple

columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD CONSTRAINT UC_Person UNIQUE (ID,LastName);

DROP a UNIQUE Constraint

To drop a UNIQUE constraint, use the following SQL:

MySQL:

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 ALTER TABLE Persons
DROP INDEX UC_Person;

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

DROP CONSTRAINT UC_Person;

SQL PRIMARY KEY Constraint

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SQL PRIMARY KEY Constraint

The PRIMARY KEY constraint uniquely identifies each record in a table.

Primary keys must contain UNIQUE values, and cannot contain NULL values.

A table can have only ONE primary key; and in the table, this primary key can
consist of single or multiple columns (fields).

SQL PRIMARY KEY on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL creates a PRIMARY KEY on the "ID" column when the
"Persons" table is created:

MySQL:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

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 CREATE TABLE Persons (
ID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int
);

To allow naming of a PRIMARY KEY constraint, and for defining a PRIMARY KEY
constraint on multiple columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
CONSTRAINT PK_Person PRIMARY KEY (ID,LastName)
);

Note: In the example above there is only ONE PRIMARY KEY (PK_Person).
However, the VALUE of the primary key is made up of TWO COLUMNS (ID +
LastName).

SQL PRIMARY KEY on ALTER TABLE

To create a PRIMARY KEY constraint on the "ID" column when the table is
already created, use the following SQL:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD PRIMARY KEY (ID);

To allow naming of a PRIMARY KEY constraint, and for defining a PRIMARY KEY
constraint on multiple columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Person PRIMARY KEY (ID,LastName);

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 Note: If you use the ALTER TABLE statement to add a primary key, the primary
key column(s) must already have been declared to not contain NULL values
(when the table was first created).

DROP a PRIMARY KEY Constraint

To drop a PRIMARY KEY constraint, use the following SQL:

MySQL:

ALTER TABLE Persons

DROP PRIMARY KEY;

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

DROP CONSTRAINT PK_Person;

SQL FOREIGN KEY Constraint

SQL FOREIGN KEY Constraint
A FOREIGN KEY is a key used to link two tables together.

A FOREIGN KEY is a field (or collection of fields) in one table that refers to the
PRIMARY KEY in another table.

The table containing the foreign key is called the child table, and the table
containing the candidate key is called the referenced or parent table.

Look at the following two tables:

"Persons" table:

PersonID LastName FirstName Age

1 Hansen Ola 30
2 Svendson Tove 23
3 Pettersen Kari 20

"Orders" table:

OrderID OrderNumber PersonID

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 1 77895 3
2 44678 3
3 22456 2
4 24562 1

Notice that the "PersonID" column in the "Orders" table points to the "PersonID"
column in the "Persons" table.

The "PersonID" column in the "Persons" table is the PRIMARY KEY in the
"Persons" table.

The "PersonID" column in the "Orders" table is a FOREIGN KEY in the "Orders"
table.

The FOREIGN KEY constraint is used to prevent actions that would destroy links
between tables.

The FOREIGN KEY constraint also prevents invalid data from being inserted into
the foreign key column, because it has to be one of the values contained in the
table it points to.

SQL FOREIGN KEY on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL creates a FOREIGN KEY on the "PersonID" column when the
"Orders" table is created:

MySQL:

CREATE TABLE Orders (

OrderID int NOT NULL,
OrderNumber int NOT NULL,
PersonID int,
PRIMARY KEY (OrderID),
FOREIGN KEY (PersonID) REFERENCES Persons(PersonID)
);

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Orders (

OrderID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
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 OrderNumber int NOT NULL,
PersonID int FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Persons(PersonID)
);

To allow naming of a FOREIGN KEY constraint, and for defining a FOREIGN KEY
constraint on multiple columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Orders (

OrderID int NOT NULL,
OrderNumber int NOT NULL,
PersonID int,
PRIMARY KEY (OrderID),
CONSTRAINT FK_PersonOrder FOREIGN KEY (PersonID)
REFERENCES Persons(PersonID)
);

SQL FOREIGN KEY on ALTER TABLE

To create a FOREIGN KEY constraint on the "PersonID" column when the
"Orders" table is already created, use the following SQL:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Orders

ADD FOREIGN KEY (PersonID) REFERENCES Persons(PersonID);

To allow naming of a FOREIGN KEY constraint, and for defining a FOREIGN KEY
constraint on multiple columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Orders

ADD CONSTRAINT FK_PersonOrder
FOREIGN KEY (PersonID) REFERENCES Persons(PersonID);

DROP a FOREIGN KEY Constraint

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 To drop a FOREIGN KEY constraint, use the following SQL:

MySQL:

ALTER TABLE Orders

DROP FOREIGN KEY FK_PersonOrder;

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Orders

DROP CONSTRAINT FK_PersonOrder;

SQL CHECK Constraint

SQL CHECK Constraint
The CHECK constraint is used to limit the value range that can be placed in a
column.

If you define a CHECK constraint on a single column it allows only certain values
for this column.

If you define a CHECK constraint on a table it can limit the values in certain
columns based on values in other columns in the row.

SQL CHECK on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL creates a CHECK constraint on the "Age" column when the
"Persons" table is created. The CHECK constraint ensures that the age of a
person must be 18, or older:

MySQL:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,

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 FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
CHECK (Age>=18)
);

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int CHECK (Age>=18)
);

To allow naming of a CHECK constraint, and for defining a CHECK constraint on

multiple columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
City varchar(255),
CONSTRAINT CHK_Person CHECK (Age>=18 AND City='Sandnes')
);

SQL CHECK on ALTER TABLE

To create a CHECK constraint on the "Age" column when the table is already
created, use the following SQL:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD CHECK (Age>=18);

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 To allow naming of a CHECK constraint, and for defining a CHECK constraint on
multiple columns, use the following SQL syntax:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD CONSTRAINT CHK_PersonAge CHECK (Age>=18 AND City='Sandnes');

DROP a CHECK Constraint

To drop a CHECK constraint, use the following SQL:

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

DROP CONSTRAINT CHK_PersonAge;

MySQL:

ALTER TABLE Persons

DROP CHECK CHK_PersonAge;

SQL DEFAULT Constraint

SQL DEFAULT Constraint
The DEFAULT constraint is used to provide a default value for a column.

The default value will be added to all new records IF no other value is specified.

SQL DEFAULT on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL sets a DEFAULT value for the "City" column when the
"Persons" table is created:

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 My SQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

ID int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
City varchar(255) DEFAULT 'Sandnes'
);

The DEFAULT constraint can also be used to insert system values, by using
functions like GETDATE():

CREATE TABLE Orders (

ID int NOT NULL,
OrderNumber int NOT NULL,
OrderDate date DEFAULT GETDATE()
);

SQL DEFAULT on ALTER TABLE

To create a DEFAULT constraint on the "City" column when the table is already
created, use the following SQL:

MySQL:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ALTER City SET DEFAULT 'Sandnes';

SQL Server:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ADD CONSTRAINT df_City
DEFAULT 'Sandnes' FOR City;

MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ALTER COLUMN City SET DEFAULT 'Sandnes';

Oracle:

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 ALTER TABLE Persons
MODIFY City DEFAULT 'Sandnes';

DROP a DEFAULT Constraint

To drop a DEFAULT constraint, use the following SQL:

MySQL:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ALTER City DROP DEFAULT;

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

ALTER TABLE Persons

ALTER COLUMN City DROP DEFAULT;

SQL CREATE INDEX Statement

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SQL CREATE INDEX Statement

The CREATE INDEX statement is used to create indexes in tables.

Indexes are used to retrieve data from the database more quickly than
otherwise. The users cannot see the indexes, they are just used to speed up
searches/queries.

Note: Updating a table with indexes takes more time than updating a table
without (because the indexes also need an update). So, only create indexes on
columns that will be frequently searched against.

CREATE INDEX Syntax

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 Creates an index on a table. Duplicate values are allowed:

CREATE INDEX index_name

ON table_name (column1, column2, ...);

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX Syntax

Creates a unique index on a table. Duplicate values are not allowed:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name

ON table_name (column1, column2, ...);

Note: The syntax for creating indexes varies among different databases.
Therefore: Check the syntax for creating indexes in your database.

CREATE INDEX Example

The SQL statement below creates an index named "idx_lastname" on the
"LastName" column in the "Persons" table:

CREATE INDEX idx_lastname

ON Persons (LastName);

If you want to create an index on a combination of columns, you can list the
column names within the parentheses, separated by commas:

CREATE INDEX idx_pname

ON Persons (LastName, FirstName);

DROP INDEX Statement

The DROP INDEX statement is used to delete an index in a table.

MS Access:

DROP INDEX index_name ON table_name;

SQL Server:

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 DROP INDEX table_name.index_name;

DB2/Oracle:

DROP INDEX index_name;

MySQL:

ALTER TABLE table_name

DROP INDEX index_name;

SQL AUTO INCREMENT Field

AUTO INCREMENT Field
Auto-increment allows a unique number to be generated automatically when a
new record is inserted into a table.

Often this is the primary key field that we would like to be created automatically
every time a new record is inserted.

Syntax for MySQL

The following SQL statement defines the "Personid" column to be an auto-
increment primary key field in the "Persons" table:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

Personid int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int,
PRIMARY KEY (Personid)
);

MySQL uses the AUTO_INCREMENT keyword to perform an auto-increment

feature.

By default, the starting value for AUTO_INCREMENT is 1, and it will increment

by 1 for each new record.

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 To let the AUTO_INCREMENT sequence start with another value, use the
following SQL statement:

ALTER TABLE Persons AUTO_INCREMENT=100;

To insert a new record into the "Persons" table, we will NOT have to specify a
value for the "Personid" column (a unique value will be added automatically):

INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName,LastName)

VALUES ('Lars','Monsen');

The SQL statement above would insert a new record into the "Persons" table.
The "Personid" column would be assigned a unique value. The "FirstName"
column would be set to "Lars" and the "LastName" column would be set to
"Monsen".

Syntax for SQL Server

The following SQL statement defines the "Personid" column to be an auto-
increment primary key field in the "Persons" table:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

Personid int IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int
);

The MS SQL Server uses the IDENTITY keyword to perform an auto-increment

feature.

In the example above, the starting value for IDENTITY is 1, and it will increment
by 1 for each new record.

Tip: To specify that the "Personid" column should start at value 10 and
increment by 5, change it to IDENTITY(10,5).

To insert a new record into the "Persons" table, we will NOT have to specify a
value for the "Personid" column (a unique value will be added automatically):

INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName,LastName)

VALUES ('Lars','Monsen');
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 The SQL statement above would insert a new record into the "Persons" table.
The "Personid" column would be assigned a unique value. The "FirstName"
column would be set to "Lars" and the "LastName" column would be set to
"Monsen".

Syntax for Access

The following SQL statement defines the "Personid" column to be an auto-
increment primary key field in the "Persons" table:

CREATE TABLE Persons (

Personid AUTOINCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Age int
);

The MS Access uses the AUTOINCREMENT keyword to perform an auto-

increment feature.

By default, the starting value for AUTOINCREMENT is 1, and it will increment by

1 for each new record.

Tip: To specify that the "Personid" column should start at value 10 and
increment by 5, change the autoincrement to AUTOINCREMENT(10,5).

To insert a new record into the "Persons" table, we will NOT have to specify a
value for the "Personid" column (a unique value will be added automatically):

INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName,LastName)

VALUES ('Lars','Monsen');

The SQL statement above would insert a new record into the "Persons" table.
The "Personid" column would be assigned a unique value. The "FirstName"
column would be set to "Lars" and the "LastName" column would be set to
"Monsen".

Syntax for Oracle

In Oracle the code is a little bit more tricky.

You will have to create an auto-increment field with the sequence object (this
object generates a number sequence).
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 Use the following CREATE SEQUENCE syntax:

CREATE SEQUENCE seq_person

MINVALUE 1
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
CACHE 10;

The code above creates a sequence object called seq_person, that starts with 1
and will increment by 1. It will also cache up to 10 values for performance. The
cache option specifies how many sequence values will be stored in memory for
faster access.

To insert a new record into the "Persons" table, we will have to use the nextval
function (this function retrieves the next value from seq_person sequence):

INSERT INTO Persons (Personid,FirstName,LastName)

VALUES (seq_person.nextval,'Lars','Monsen');

The SQL statement above would insert a new record into the "Persons" table.
The "Personid" column would be assigned the next number from the seq_person
sequence. The "FirstName" column would be set to "Lars" and the "LastName"
column would be set to "Monsen".

SQL Working With Dates

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SQL Dates
The most difficult part when working with dates is to be sure that the format of
the date you are trying to insert, matches the format of the date column in the
database.

As long as your data contains only the date portion, your queries will work as
expected. However, if a time portion is involved, it gets more complicated.

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 SQL Date Data Types
MySQL comes with the following data types for storing a date or a date/time
value in the database:

• DATE - format YYYY-MM-DD

• DATETIME - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS
• TIMESTAMP - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS
• YEAR - format YYYY or YY

SQL Server comes with the following data types for storing a date or a
date/time value in the database:

• DATE - format YYYY-MM-DD

• DATETIME - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS
• SMALLDATETIME - format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS
• TIMESTAMP - format: a unique number

Note: The date types are chosen for a column when you create a new table in
your database!

SQL Working with Dates

You can compare two dates easily if there is no time component involved!

Assume we have the following "Orders" table:

OrderId ProductName OrderDate

1 Geitost 2008-11-11
2 Camembert Pierrot 2008-11-09
3 Mozzarella di Giovanni 2008-11-11
4 Mascarpone Fabioli 2008-10-29

Now we want to select the records with an OrderDate of "2008-11-11" from the
table above.

We use the following SELECT statement:

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE OrderDate='2008-11-11'

The result-set will look like this:

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 OrderId ProductName OrderDate
1 Geitost 2008-11-11
3 Mozzarella di Giovanni 2008-11-11

Now, assume that the "Orders" table looks like this (notice the time component
in the "OrderDate" column):

OrderId ProductName OrderDate

1 Geitost 2008-11-11 13:23:44
2 Camembert Pierrot 2008-11-09 15:45:21
3 Mozzarella di Giovanni 2008-11-11 11:12:01
4 Mascarpone Fabioli 2008-10-29 14:56:59

If we use the same SELECT statement as above:

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE OrderDate='2008-11-11'

we will get no result! This is because the query is looking only for dates with no
time portion.

Tip: To keep your queries simple and easy to maintain, do not allow time
components in your dates!

SQL Views
SQL CREATE VIEW Statement
In SQL, a view is a virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement.

A view contains rows and columns, just like a real table. The fields in a view are
fields from one or more real tables in the database.

You can add SQL functions, WHERE, and JOIN statements to a view and present
the data as if the data were coming from one single table.

CREATE VIEW Syntax

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

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 Note: A view always shows up-to-date data! The database engine recreates the
data, using the view's SQL statement, every time a user queries a view.

SQL CREATE VIEW Examples

The following SQL creates a view that shows all customers from Brazil:

Example
CREATE VIEW [Brazil Customers] AS
SELECT CustomerName, ContactName
FROM Customers
WHERE Country = 'Brazil';

We can query the view above as follows:

Example
SELECT * FROM [Brazil Customers];

The following SQL creates a view that selects every product in the "Products"
table with a price higher than the average price:

Example
CREATE VIEW [Products Above Average Price] AS
SELECT ProductName, Price
FROM Products
WHERE Price > (SELECT AVG(Price) FROM Products);

We can query the view above as follows:

Example
SELECT * FROM [Products Above Average Price];

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 SQL Updating a View
A view can be updated with the CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW command.

SQL CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Syntax

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

The following SQL adds the "City" column to the "Brazil Customers" view:

Example
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW [Brazil Customers] AS
SELECT CustomerName, ContactName, City
FROM Customers
WHERE Country = 'Brazil';

SQL Dropping a View

A view is deleted with the DROP VIEW command.

SQL DROP VIEW Syntax

DROP VIEW view_name;

The following SQL drops the "Brazil Customers" view:

Example
DROP VIEW [Brazil Customers];

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SQL Injection
SQL injection is a code injection technique that might destroy your database.

SQL injection is one of the most common web hacking techniques.

SQL injection is the placement of malicious code in SQL statements, via web
page input.

SQL in Web Pages

SQL injection usually occurs when you ask a user for input, like their
username/userid, and instead of a name/id, the user gives you an SQL
statement that you will unknowingly run on your database.

Look at the following example which creates a SELECT statement by adding a

variable (txtUserId) to a select string. The variable is fetched from user input
(getRequestString):

Example
txtUserId = getRequestString("UserId");
txtSQL = "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserId = " + txtUserId;

The rest of this chapter describes the potential dangers of using user input in
SQL statements.

SQL Injection Based on 1=1 is Always True

Look at the example above again. The original purpose of the code was to
create an SQL statement to select a user, with a given user id.

If there is nothing to prevent a user from entering "wrong" input, the user can
enter some "smart" input like this:
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 UserId:

Then, the SQL statement will look like this:

SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserId = 105 OR 1=1;

The SQL above is valid and will return ALL rows from the "Users" table,
since OR 1=1 is always TRUE.

Does the example above look dangerous? What if the "Users" table contains
names and passwords?

The SQL statement above is much the same as this:

SELECT UserId, Name, Password FROM Users WHERE UserId = 105 or 1=1;

A hacker might get access to all the user names and passwords in a database,
by simply inserting 105 OR 1=1 into the input field.

SQL Injection Based on ""="" is Always True

Here is an example of a user login on a web site:

Username:

Password:

Example
uName = getRequestString("username");
uPass = getRequestString("userpassword");

sql = 'SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Name ="' + uName + '" AND Pass ="' +
uPass + '"'

Result
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 SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Name ="John Doe" AND Pass ="myPass"

A hacker might get access to user names and passwords in a database by

simply inserting " OR ""=" into the user name or password text box:

User Name:

Password:

The code at the server will create a valid SQL statement like this:

Result
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Name ="" or ""="" AND Pass ="" or ""=""

The SQL above is valid and will return all rows from the "Users" table, since OR
""="" is always TRUE.

SQL Injection Based on Batched SQL

Statements
Most databases support batched SQL statement.

A batch of SQL statements is a group of two or more SQL statements,

separated by semicolons.

The SQL statement below will return all rows from the "Users" table, then delete
the "Suppliers" table.

Example
SELECT * FROM Users; DROP TABLE Suppliers

Look at the following example:

Example

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 txtUserId = getRequestString("UserId");
txtSQL = "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserId = " + txtUserId;

And the following input:

User id:

The valid SQL statement would look like this:

Result
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserId = 105; DROP TABLE Suppliers;

Use SQL Parameters for Protection

To protect a web site from SQL injection, you can use SQL parameters.

SQL parameters are values that are added to an SQL query at execution time,
in a controlled manner.

ASP.NET Razor Example

txtUserId = getRequestString("UserId");
txtSQL = "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserId = @0";
db.Execute(txtSQL,txtUserId);

Note that parameters are represented in the SQL statement by a @ marker.

The SQL engine checks each parameter to ensure that it is correct for its
column and are treated literally, and not as part of the SQL to be executed.

Another Example
txtNam = getRequestString("CustomerName");
txtAdd = getRequestString("Address");
txtCit = getRequestString("City");
txtSQL = "INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName,Address,City)
Values(@0,@1,@2)";
db.Execute(txtSQL,txtNam,txtAdd,txtCit);

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 Examples
The following examples shows how to build parameterized queries in some
common web languages.

SELECT STATEMENT IN ASP.NET:

txtUserId = getRequestString("UserId");
sql = "SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE CustomerId = @0";
command = new SqlCommand(sql);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@0",txtUserId);
command.ExecuteReader();

INSERT INTO STATEMENT IN ASP.NET:

txtNam = getRequestString("CustomerName");
txtAdd = getRequestString("Address");
txtCit = getRequestString("City");
txtSQL = "INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName,Address,City)
Values(@0,@1,@2)";
command = new SqlCommand(txtSQL);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@0",txtNam);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@1",txtAdd);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@2",txtCit);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();

INSERT INTO STATEMENT IN PHP:

$stmt = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO Customers (CustomerName,Address,City)

VALUES (:nam, :add, :cit)");
$stmt->bindParam(':nam', $txtNam);
$stmt->bindParam(':add', $txtAdd);
$stmt->bindParam(':cit', $txtCit);
$stmt->execute();

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 SQL Hosting
SQL Hosting
If you want your web site to be able to store and retrieve data from a database,
your web server should have access to a database-system that uses the SQL
language.

If your web server is hosted by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), you will have
to look for SQL hosting plans.

The most common SQL hosting databases are MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL,
and MS Access.

MS SQL Server
Microsoft's SQL Server is a popular database software for database-driven web
sites with high traffic.

SQL Server is a very powerful, robust and full featured SQL database system.

Oracle
Oracle is also a popular database software for database-driven web sites with
high traffic.

Oracle is a very powerful, robust and full featured SQL database system.

MySQL
MySQL is also a popular database software for web sites.

MySQL is a very powerful, robust and full featured SQL database system.

MySQL is an inexpensive alternative to the expensive Microsoft and Oracle

solutions.

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 Access
When a web site requires only a simple database, Microsoft Access can be a
solution.

Access is not well suited for very high-traffic, and not as powerful as MySQL,
SQL Server, or Oracle.

SQL Data Types for MySQL, SQL

Server, and MS Access
The data type of a column defines what value the column can hold: integer,
character, money, date and time, binary, and so on.

SQL Data Types

Each column in a database table is required to have a name and a data type.

An SQL developer must decide what type of data that will be stored inside each
column when creating a table. The data type is a guideline for SQL to
understand what type of data is expected inside of each column, and it also
identifies how SQL will interact with the stored data.

Note: Data types might have different names in different database. And even if
the name is the same, the size and other details may be different! Always
check the documentation!

MySQL Data Types (Version 8.0)

In MySQL there are three main data types: string, numeric, and date and time.

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 String data types:
Data type Description
CHAR(size) A FIXED length string (can contain letters, numbers, and special characters).
The size parameter specifies the column length in characters - can be from 0 to 255.
Default is 1
VARCHAR(size) A VARIABLE length string (can contain letters, numbers, and special characters).
The size parameter specifies the maximum column length in characters - can be from 0 to
65535
BINARY(size) Equal to CHAR(), but stores binary byte strings. The size parameter specifies the column
length in bytes. Default is 1
VARBINARY(size) Equal to VARCHAR(), but stores binary byte strings. The size parameter specifies the
maximum column length in bytes.
TINYBLOB For BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). Max length: 255 bytes
TINYTEXT Holds a string with a maximum length of 255 characters
TEXT(size) Holds a string with a maximum length of 65,535 bytes
BLOB(size) For BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). Holds up to 65,535 bytes of data
MEDIUMTEXT Holds a string with a maximum length of 16,777,215 characters
MEDIUMBLOB For BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). Holds up to 16,777,215 bytes of data
LONGTEXT Holds a string with a maximum length of 4,294,967,295 characters
LONGBLOB For BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). Holds up to 4,294,967,295 bytes of data
ENUM(val1, val2, val3, A string object that can have only one value, chosen from a list of possible values. You can
...) list up to 65535 values in an ENUM list. If a value is inserted that is not in the list, a blank
value will be inserted. The values are sorted in the order you enter them
SET(val1, val2, val3, ...) A string object that can have 0 or more values, chosen from a list of possible values. You
can list up to 64 values in a SET list

Numeric data types:

Data type Description
BIT(size) A bit-value type. The number of bits per value is specified in size. The size parameter can
hold a value from 1 to 64. The default value for size is 1.
TINYINT(size) A very small integer. Signed range is from -128 to 127. Unsigned range is from 0 to 255.
The size parameter specifies the maximum display width (which is 255)
BOOL Zero is considered as false, nonzero values are considered as true.
BOOLEAN Equal to BOOL
SMALLINT(size) A small integer. Signed range is from -32768 to 32767. Unsigned range is from 0 to 65535.
The size parameter specifies the maximum display width (which is 255)
MEDIUMINT(size) A medium integer. Signed range is from -8388608 to 8388607. Unsigned range is from 0
to 16777215. The size parameter specifies the maximum display width (which is 255)
INT(size) A medium integer. Signed range is from -2147483648 to 2147483647. Unsigned range is
from 0 to 4294967295. The size parameter specifies the maximum display width (which is
255)
INTEGER(size) Equal to INT(size)
BIGINT(size) A large integer. Signed range is from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807.
Unsigned range is from 0 to 18446744073709551615. The size parameter specifies the
maximum display width (which is 255)
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FLOAT(size, d) A floating point number. The total number of digits is specified in size. The number of
digits after the decimal point is specified in the d parameter. This syntax is deprecated in
MySQL 8.0.17, and it will be removed in future MySQL versions
FLOAT(p) A floating point number. MySQL uses the p value to determine whether to use FLOAT or
DOUBLE for the resulting data type. If p is from 0 to 24, the data type becomes FLOAT().
If p is from 25 to 53, the data type becomes DOUBLE()
DOUBLE(size, d) A normal-size floating point number. The total number of digits is specified in size. The
number of digits after the decimal point is specified in the d parameter
DOUBLE
PRECISION(size, d)
DECIMAL(size, d) An exact fixed-point number. The total number of digits is specified in size. The number of
digits after the decimal point is specified in the d parameter. The maximum number
for size is 65. The maximum number for d is 30. The default value for size is 10. The
default value for d is 0.
DEC(size, d) Equal to DECIMAL(size,d)

Note: All the numeric data types may have an extra option: UNSIGNED or
ZEROFILL. If you add the UNSIGNED option, MySQL disallows negative values
for the column. If you add the ZEROFILL option, MySQL automatically also adds
the UNSIGNED attribute to the column.

Date and Time data types:

Data type Description
DATE A date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. The supported range is from '1000-
01-01' to '9999-12-31'
DATETIME(fsp) A date and time combination. Format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. The
supported range is from '1000-01-01 00:00:00' to '9999-12-31
23:59:59'. Adding DEFAULT and ON UPDATE in the column
definition to get automatic initialization and updating to the current
date and time
TIMESTAMP(fsp) A timestamp. TIMESTAMP values are stored as the number of
seconds since the Unix epoch ('1970-01-01 00:00:00' UTC).
Format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. The supported range is from
'1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-09 03:14:07' UTC.
Automatic initialization and updating to the current date and time
can be specified using DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON
UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in the column definition
TIME(fsp) A time. Format: hh:mm:ss. The supported range is from '-
838:59:59' to '838:59:59'
YEAR A year in four-digit format. Values allowed in four-digit format:
1901 to 2155, and 0000.
MySQL 8.0 does not support year in two-digit format.

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 SQL Server Data Types
String data types:
Data type Description Max size Storage
char(n) Fixed width character string 8,000 characters Defined width
varchar(n) Variable width character string 8,000 characters 2 bytes +
number of chars
varchar(max) Variable width character string 1,073,741,824 characters 2 bytes +
number of chars
text Variable width character string 2GB of text data 4 bytes +
number of chars
nchar Fixed width Unicode string 4,000 characters Defined width x
2
nvarchar Variable width Unicode string 4,000 characters
nvarchar(max) Variable width Unicode string 536,870,912 characters
ntext Variable width Unicode string 2GB of text data
binary(n) Fixed width binary string 8,000 bytes
varbinary Variable width binary string 8,000 bytes
varbinary(max) Variable width binary string 2GB
image Variable width binary string 2GB

Numeric data types:

Data type Description Storage
bit Integer that can be 0, 1, or NULL
tinyint Allows whole numbers from 0 to 255 1 byte
smallint Allows whole numbers between -32,768 and 32,767 2 bytes
int Allows whole numbers between -2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,647 4 bytes
bigint Allows whole numbers between -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 and 8 bytes
9,223,372,036,854,775,807
decimal(p,s) Fixed precision and scale numbers. 5-17 bytes
Allows numbers from -10^38 +1 to 10^38 –1.
The p parameter indicates the maximum total number of digits
that can be stored (both to the left and to the right of the decimal
point). p must be a value from 1 to 38. Default is 18.
The s parameter indicates the maximum number of digits stored
to the right of the decimal point. s must be a value from 0 to p.
Default value is 0
numeric(p,s) Fixed precision and scale numbers. 5-17 bytes
Allows numbers from -10^38 +1 to 10^38 –1.
The p parameter indicates the maximum total number of digits
that can be stored (both to the left and to the right of the decimal
point). p must be a value from 1 to 38. Default is 18.
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 The s parameter indicates the maximum number of digits stored
to the right of the decimal point. s must be a value from 0 to p.
Default value is 0
smallmoney Monetary data from -214,748.3648 to 214,748.3647 4 bytes
money Monetary data from -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 8 bytes
922,337,203,685,477.5807
float(n) Floating precision number data from -1.79E + 308 to 1.79E + 308. 4 or 8 bytes
The n parameter indicates whether the field should hold 4 or 8
bytes. float(24) holds a 4-byte field and float(53) holds an 8-byte
field. Default value of n is 53.
real Floating precision number data from -3.40E + 38 to 3.40E + 38 4 bytes

Date and Time data types:

Data type Description Storage
datetime From January 1, 1753 to December 31, 9999 with an accuracy of 3.33 milliseconds 8 bytes
datetime2 From January 1, 0001 to December 31, 9999 with an accuracy of 100 nanoseconds 6-8 bytes
smalldatetime From January 1, 1900 to June 6, 2079 with an accuracy of 1 minute 4 bytes
date Store a date only. From January 1, 0001 to December 31, 9999 3 bytes
time Store a time only to an accuracy of 100 nanoseconds 3-5 bytes
datetimeoffset The same as datetime2 with the addition of a time zone offset 8-10 bytes
timestamp Stores a unique number that gets updated every time a row gets created or
modified. The timestamp value is based upon an internal clock and does not
correspond to real time. Each table may have only one timestamp variable

Other data types:

Data type Description

sql_variant Stores up to 8,000 bytes of data of various data types, except text,
ntext, and timestamp

uniqueidentifier Stores a globally unique identifier (GUID)

xml Stores XML formatted data. Maximum 2GB

cursor Stores a reference to a cursor used for database operations

table Stores a result-set for later processing

Microsoft Access Data Types

Data type Description Storage
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Text Use for text or combinations of text and numbers. 255 characters maximum
Memo Memo is used for larger amounts of text. Stores up to 65,536
characters. Note: You cannot sort a memo field. However, they are searchable
Byte Allows whole numbers from 0 to 255 1 byte
Integer Allows whole numbers between -32,768 and 32,767 2 bytes
Long Allows whole numbers between -2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,647 4 bytes
Single Single precision floating-point. Will handle most decimals 4 bytes
Double Double precision floating-point. Will handle most decimals 8 bytes
Currency Use for currency. Holds up to 15 digits of whole dollars, plus 4 decimal 8 bytes
places. Tip: You can choose which country's currency to use
AutoNumber AutoNumber fields automatically give each record its own number, usually starting 4 bytes
at 1
Date/Time Use for dates and times 8 bytes
Yes/No A logical field can be displayed as Yes/No, True/False, or On/Off. In code, use the 1 bit
constants True and False (equivalent to -1 and 0). Note: Null values are not
allowed in Yes/No fields
Ole Object Can store pictures, audio, video, or other BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) up to 1GB
Hyperlink Contain links to other files, including web pages
Lookup Wizard Let you type a list of options, which can then be chosen from a drop-down list 4 bytes

SQL Keywords Reference

This SQL keywords reference contains the reserved words in SQL.

SQL Keywords
Keyword Description
ADD Adds a column in an existing table
ADD CONSTRAINT Adds a constraint after a table is already created
ALTER Adds, deletes, or modifies columns in a table, or changes the
data type of a column in a table
ALTER COLUMN Changes the data type of a column in a table
ALTER TABLE Adds, deletes, or modifies columns in a table
ALL Returns true if all of the subquery values meet the condition
AND Only includes rows where both conditions is true
ANY Returns true if any of the subquery values meet the condition
AS Renames a column or table with an alias
ASC Sorts the result set in ascending order
BACKUP DATABASE Creates a back up of an existing database
BETWEEN Selects values within a given range
CASE Creates different outputs based on conditions

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 CHECK A constraint that limits the value that can be placed in a
column
COLUMN Changes the data type of a column or deletes a column in a
table
CONSTRAINT Adds or deletes a constraint
CREATE Creates a database, index, view, table, or procedure
CREATE DATABASE Creates a new SQL database
CREATE INDEX Creates an index on a table (allows duplicate values)
CREATE OR REPLACE Updates a view
VIEW
CREATE TABLE Creates a new table in the database
CREATE PROCEDURE Creates a stored procedure
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX Creates a unique index on a table (no duplicate values)
CREATE VIEW Creates a view based on the result set of a SELECT statement
DATABASE Creates or deletes an SQL database
DEFAULT A constraint that provides a default value for a column
DELETE Deletes rows from a table
DESC Sorts the result set in descending order
DISTINCT Selects only distinct (different) values
DROP Deletes a column, constraint, database, index, table, or view
DROP COLUMN Deletes a column in a table
DROP CONSTRAINT Deletes a UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, or CHECK
constraint
DROP DATABASE Deletes an existing SQL database
DROP DEFAULT Deletes a DEFAULT constraint
DROP INDEX Deletes an index in a table
DROP TABLE Deletes an existing table in the database
DROP VIEW Deletes a view
EXEC Executes a stored procedure
EXISTS Tests for the existence of any record in a subquery
FOREIGN KEY A constraint that is a key used to link two tables together
FROM Specifies which table to select or delete data from
FULL OUTER JOIN Returns all rows when there is a match in either left table or
right table
GROUP BY Groups the result set (used with aggregate functions: COUNT,
MAX, MIN, SUM, AVG)
HAVING Used instead of WHERE with aggregate functions
IN Allows you to specify multiple values in a WHERE clause
INDEX Creates or deletes an index in a table
INNER JOIN Returns rows that have matching values in both tables
INSERT INTO Inserts new rows in a table
INSERT INTO SELECT Copies data from one table into another table
IS NULL Tests for empty values
IS NOT NULL Tests for non-empty values

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 JOIN Joins tables
LEFT JOIN Returns all rows from the left table, and the matching rows
from the right table
LIKE Searches for a specified pattern in a column
LIMIT Specifies the number of records to return in the result set
NOT Only includes rows where a condition is not true
NOT NULL A constraint that enforces a column to not accept NULL values
OR Includes rows where either condition is true
ORDER BY Sorts the result set in ascending or descending order
OUTER JOIN Returns all rows when there is a match in either left table or
right table
PRIMARY KEY A constraint that uniquely identifies each record in a database
table
PROCEDURE A stored procedure
RIGHT JOIN Returns all rows from the right table, and the matching rows
from the left table
ROWNUM Specifies the number of records to return in the result set
SELECT Selects data from a database
SELECT DISTINCT Selects only distinct (different) values
SELECT INTO Copies data from one table into a new table
SELECT TOP Specifies the number of records to return in the result set
SET Specifies which columns and values that should be updated in
a table
TABLE Creates a table, or adds, deletes, or modifies columns in a
table, or deletes a table or data inside a table
TOP Specifies the number of records to return in the result set
TRUNCATE TABLE Deletes the data inside a table, but not the table itself
UNION Combines the result set of two or more SELECT statements
(only distinct values)
UNION ALL Combines the result set of two or more SELECT statements
(allows duplicate values)
UNIQUE A constraint that ensures that all values in a column are
unique
UPDATE Updates existing rows in a table
VALUES Specifies the values of an INSERT INTO statement
VIEW Creates, updates, or deletes a view
WHERE Filters a result set to include only records that fulfill a specified
condition

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 MySQL Functions
MySQL has many built-in functions.

This reference contains string, numeric, date, and some advanced functions
in MySQL.

MySQL String Functions

Function Description
ASCII Returns the ASCII value for the specific character
CHAR_LENGTH Returns the length of a string (in characters)
CHARACTER_LENGTH Returns the length of a string (in characters)
CONCAT Adds two or more expressions together
CONCAT_WS Adds two or more expressions together with a separator
FIELD Returns the index position of a value in a list of values
FIND_IN_SET Returns the position of a string within a list of strings
FORMAT Formats a number to a format like "#,###,###.##", rounded to
a specified number of decimal places
INSERT Inserts a string within a string at the specified position and for a
certain number of characters
INSTR Returns the position of the first occurrence of a string in another
string
LCASE Converts a string to lower-case
LEFT Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from left)
LENGTH Returns the length of a string (in bytes)
LOCATE Returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a
string
LOWER Converts a string to lower-case
LPAD Left-pads a string with another string, to a certain length
LTRIM Removes leading spaces from a string
MID Extracts a substring from a string (starting at any position)
POSITION Returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a
string
REPEAT Repeats a string as many times as specified
REPLACE Replaces all occurrences of a substring within a string, with a new
substring
REVERSE Reverses a string and returns the result
RIGHT Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from right)
RPAD Right-pads a string with another string, to a certain length
RTRIM Removes trailing spaces from a string
SPACE Returns a string of the specified number of space characters
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STRCMP Compares two strings
SUBSTR Extracts a substring from a string (starting at any position)
SUBSTRING Extracts a substring from a string (starting at any position)
SUBSTRING_INDEX Returns a substring of a string before a specified number of
delimiter occurs
TRIM Removes leading and trailing spaces from a string
UCASE Converts a string to upper-case
UPPER Converts a string to upper-case

MySQL Numeric Functions

Function Description
ABS Returns the absolute value of a number
ACOS Returns the arc cosine of a number
ASIN Returns the arc sine of a number
ATAN Returns the arc tangent of one or two numbers
ATAN2 Returns the arc tangent of two numbers
AVG Returns the average value of an expression
CEIL Returns the smallest integer value that is >= to a number
CEILING Returns the smallest integer value that is >= to a number
COS Returns the cosine of a number
COT Returns the cotangent of a number
COUNT Returns the number of records returned by a select query
DEGREES Converts a value in radians to degrees
DIV Used for integer division
EXP Returns e raised to the power of a specified number
FLOOR Returns the largest integer value that is <= to a number
GREATEST Returns the greatest value of the list of arguments
LEAST Returns the smallest value of the list of arguments
LN Returns the natural logarithm of a number
LOG Returns the natural logarithm of a number, or the logarithm of a
number to a specified base
LOG10 Returns the natural logarithm of a number to base 10
LOG2 Returns the natural logarithm of a number to base 2
MAX Returns the maximum value in a set of values
MIN Returns the minimum value in a set of values
MOD Returns the remainder of a number divided by another number
PI Returns the value of PI
POW Returns the value of a number raised to the power of another
number

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POWER Returns the value of a number raised to the power of another
number
RADIANS Converts a degree value into radians
RAND Returns a random number
ROUND Rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places
SIGN Returns the sign of a number
SIN Returns the sine of a number
SQRT Returns the square root of a number
SUM Calculates the sum of a set of values
TAN Returns the tangent of a number
TRUNCATE Truncates a number to the specified number of decimal places

MySQL Date Functions

Function Description
ADDDATE Adds a time/date interval to a date and then returns the date
ADDTIME Adds a time interval to a time/datetime and then returns the
time/datetime
CURDATE Returns the current date
CURRENT_DATE Returns the current date
CURRENT_TIME Returns the current time
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Returns the current date and time
CURTIME Returns the current time
DATE Extracts the date part from a datetime expression
DATEDIFF Returns the number of days between two date values
DATE_ADD Adds a time/date interval to a date and then returns the date
DATE_FORMAT Formats a date
DATE_SUB Subtracts a time/date interval from a date and then returns the
date
DAY Returns the day of the month for a given date
DAYNAME Returns the weekday name for a given date
DAYOFMONTH Returns the day of the month for a given date
DAYOFWEEK Returns the weekday index for a given date
DAYOFYEAR Returns the day of the year for a given date
EXTRACT Extracts a part from a given date
FROM_DAYS Returns a date from a numeric datevalue
HOUR Returns the hour part for a given date
LAST_DAY Extracts the last day of the month for a given date
LOCALTIME Returns the current date and time
LOCALTIMESTAMP Returns the current date and time
MAKEDATE Creates and returns a date based on a year and a number of
days value
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MAKETIME Creates and returns a time based on an hour, minute, and
second value
MICROSECOND Returns the microsecond part of a time/datetime
MINUTE Returns the minute part of a time/datetime
MONTH Returns the month part for a given date
MONTHNAME Returns the name of the month for a given date
NOW Returns the current date and time
PERIOD_ADD Adds a specified number of months to a period
PERIOD_DIFF Returns the difference between two periods
QUARTER Returns the quarter of the year for a given date value
SECOND Returns the seconds part of a time/datetime
SEC_TO_TIME Returns a time value based on the specified seconds
STR_TO_DATE Returns a date based on a string and a format
SUBDATE Subtracts a time/date interval from a date and then returns the
date
SUBTIME Subtracts a time interval from a datetime and then returns the
time/datetime
SYSDATE Returns the current date and time
TIME Extracts the time part from a given time/datetime
TIME_FORMAT Formats a time by a specified format
TIME_TO_SEC Converts a time value into seconds
TIMEDIFF Returns the difference between two time/datetime expressions
TIMESTAMP Returns a datetime value based on a date or datetime value
TO_DAYS Returns the number of days between a date and date "0000-00-
00"
WEEK Returns the week number for a given date
WEEKDAY Returns the weekday number for a given date
WEEKOFYEAR Returns the week number for a given date
YEAR Returns the year part for a given date
YEARWEEK Returns the year and week number for a given date

MySQL Advanced Functions

Function Description
BIN Returns a binary representation of a number
BINARY Converts a value to a binary string
CASE Goes through conditions and return a value when the first condition
is met
CAST Converts a value (of any type) into a specified datatype
COALESCE Returns the first non-null value in a list
CONNECTION_ID Returns the unique connection ID for the current connection
CONV Converts a number from one numeric base system to another
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CONVERT Converts a value into the specified datatype or character set
CURRENT_USER Returns the user name and host name for the MySQL account that
the server used to authenticate the current client
DATABASE Returns the name of the current database
IF Returns a value if a condition is TRUE, or another value if a
condition is FALSE
IFNULL Return a specified value if the expression is NULL, otherwise return
the expression
ISNULL Returns 1 or 0 depending on whether an expression is NULL
LAST_INSERT_ID Returns the AUTO_INCREMENT id of the last row that has been
inserted or updated in a table
NULLIF Compares two expressions and returns NULL if they are equal.
Otherwise, the first expression is returned
SESSION_USER Returns the current MySQL user name and host name
SYSTEM_USER Returns the current MySQL user name and host name
USER Returns the current MySQL user name and host name
VERSION Returns the current version of the MySQL database

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 SQL Server Functions
SQL Server has many built-in functions.

This reference contains string, numeric, date, conversion, and some

advanced functions in SQL Server.

SQL Server String Functions

Function Description
ASCII Returns the ASCII value for the specific character
CHAR Returns the character based on the ASCII code
CHARINDEX Returns the position of a substring in a string
CONCAT Adds two or more strings together
Concat with + Adds two or more strings together
CONCAT_WS Adds two or more strings together with a separator
DATALENGTH Returns the number of bytes used to represent an expression
DIFFERENCE Compares two SOUNDEX values, and returns an integer value
FORMAT Formats a value with the specified format
LEFT Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from left)
LEN Returns the length of a string
LOWER Converts a string to lower-case
LTRIM Removes leading spaces from a string
NCHAR Returns the Unicode character based on the number code
PATINDEX Returns the position of a pattern in a string
QUOTENAME Returns a Unicode string with delimiters added to make the string a valid
SQL Server delimited identifier
REPLACE Replaces all occurrences of a substring within a string, with a new
substring
REPLICATE Repeats a string a specified number of times
REVERSE Reverses a string and returns the result
RIGHT Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from right)
RTRIM Removes trailing spaces from a string
SOUNDEX Returns a four-character code to evaluate the similarity of two strings
SPACE Returns a string of the specified number of space characters
STR Returns a number as string
STUFF Deletes a part of a string and then inserts another part into the string,
starting at a specified position
SUBSTRING Extracts some characters from a string

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TRANSLATE Returns the string from the first argument after the characters specified
in the second argument are translated into the characters specified in
the third argument.
TRIM Removes leading and trailing spaces (or other specified characters) from
a string
UNICODE Returns the Unicode value for the first character of the input expression
UPPER Converts a string to upper-case

SQL Server Math/Numeric Functions

Function Description
ABS Returns the absolute value of a number
ACOS Returns the arc cosine of a number
ASIN Returns the arc sine of a number
ATAN Returns the arc tangent of a number
ATN2 Returns the arc tangent of two numbers
AVG Returns the average value of an expression
CEILING Returns the smallest integer value that is >= a number
COUNT Returns the number of records returned by a select query
COS Returns the cosine of a number
COT Returns the cotangent of a number
DEGREES Converts a value in radians to degrees
EXP Returns e raised to the power of a specified number
FLOOR Returns the largest integer value that is <= to a number
LOG Returns the natural logarithm of a number, or the logarithm of a number
to a specified base
LOG10 Returns the natural logarithm of a number to base 10
MAX Returns the maximum value in a set of values
MIN Returns the minimum value in a set of values
PI Returns the value of PI
POWER Returns the value of a number raised to the power of another number
RADIANS Converts a degree value into radians
RAND Returns a random number
ROUND Rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places
SIGN Returns the sign of a number
SIN Returns the sine of a number
SQRT Returns the square root of a number
SQUARE Returns the square of a number
SUM Calculates the sum of a set of values

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TAN Returns the tangent of a number

SQL Server Date Functions

Function Description
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Returns the current date and time
DATEADD Adds a time/date interval to a date and then returns the date
DATEDIFF Returns the difference between two dates
DATEFROMPARTS Returns a date from the specified parts (year, month, and
day values)
DATENAME Returns a specified part of a date (as string)
DATEPART Returns a specified part of a date (as integer)
DAY Returns the day of the month for a specified date
GETDATE Returns the current database system date and time
GETUTCDATE Returns the current database system UTC date and time
ISDATE Checks an expression and returns 1 if it is a valid date,
otherwise 0
MONTH Returns the month part for a specified date (a number from 1
to 12)
SYSDATETIME Returns the date and time of the SQL Server
YEAR Returns the year part for a specified date

SQL Server Advanced Functions

Function Description
CAST Converts a value (of any type) into a specified datatype
COALESCE Returns the first non-null value in a list
CONVERT Converts a value (of any type) into a specified datatype
CURRENT_USER Returns the name of the current user in the SQL Server database
IIF Returns a value if a condition is TRUE, or another value if a condition
is FALSE
ISNULL Return a specified value if the expression is NULL, otherwise return
the expression
ISNUMERIC Tests whether an expression is numeric
NULLIF Returns NULL if two expressions are equal
SESSION_USER Returns the name of the current user in the SQL Server database
SESSIONPROPERTY Returns the session settings for a specified option
SYSTEM_USER Returns the login name for the current user
USER_NAME Returns the database user name based on the specified id
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 MS Access Function
MS Access has many built-in functions.

This reference contains the string, numeric, and date functions in MS Access.

MS Access String Functions

Function Description
Asc Returns the ASCII value for the specific character
Chr Returns the character for the specified ASCII number code
Concat with & Adds two or more strings together
CurDir Returns the full path for a specified drive
Format Formats a value with the specified format
InStr Gets the position of the first occurrence of a string in another
InstrRev Gets the position of the first occurrence of a string in another, from the
end of string
LCase Converts a string to lower-case
Left Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from left)
Len Returns the length of a string
LTrim Removes leading spaces from a string
Mid Extracts some characters from a string (starting at any position)
Replace Replaces a substring within a string, with another substring, a specified
number of times
Right Extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from right)
RTrim Removes trailing spaces from a string
Space Returns a string of the specified number of space characters
Split Splits a string into an array of substrings
Str Returns a number as string
StrComp Compares two strings
StrConv Returns a converted string
StrReverse Reverses a string and returns the result
Trim Removes both leading and trailing spaces from a string
UCase Converts a string to upper-case
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 MS Access Numeric Functions
Function Description
Abs Returns the absolute value of a number
Atn Returns the arc tangent of a number
Avg Returns the average value of an expression
Cos Returns the cosine of an angle
Count Returns the number of records returned by a select query
Exp Returns e raised to the power of a specified number
Fix Returns the integer part of a number
Format Formats a numeric value with the specified format
Int Returns the integer part of a number
Max Returns the maximum value in a set of values
Min Returns the minimum value in a set of values
Randomize Initializes the random number generator (used by Rnd()) with a seed
Rnd Returns a random number
Round Rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places
Sgn Returns the sign of a number
Sqr Returns the square root of a number
Sum Calculates the sum of a set of values
Val Reads a string and returns the numbers found in the string

MS Access Date Functions

Function Description
Date Returns the current system date
DateAdd Adds a time/date interval to a date and then returns the date
DateDiff Returns the difference between two dates
DatePart Returns a specified part of a date (as an integer)
DateSerial Returns a date from the specified parts (year, month, and day values)
DateValue Returns a date based on a string
Day Returns the day of the month for a given date
Format Formats a date value with the specified format
Hour Returns the hour part of a time/datetime
Minute Returns the minute part of a time/datetime
Month Returns the month part of a given date
MonthName Returns the name of the month based on a number
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Now Returns the current date and time based on the computer's system
date and time
Second Returns the seconds part of a time/datetime
Time Returns the current system time
TimeSerial Returns a time from the specified parts (hour, minute, and second
value)
TimeValue Returns a time based on a string
Weekday Returns the weekday number for a given date
WeekdayName Returns the weekday name based on a number
Year Returns the year part of a given date

MS Access Some Other Functions

Function Description
CurrentUser Returns the name of the current database user
Environ Returns a string that contains the value of an operating system
environment variable
IsDate Checks whether an expression can be converted to a date
IsNull Checks whether an expression contains Null (no data)
IsNumeric Checks whether an expression is a valid number

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 SQL Quick Reference from
W3School
SQL Statement Syntax
AND / OR SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
AND|OR condition
ALTER TABLE ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD column_name datatype
or
ALTER TABLE table_name
DROP COLUMN column_name
AS (alias) SELECT column_name AS column_alias
FROM table_name
or
SELECT column_name
FROM table_name AS table_alias
BETWEEN SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name
BETWEEN value1 AND value2
CREATE DATABASE CREATE DATABASE database_name
CREATE TABLE CREATE TABLE table_name
(
column_name1 data_type,
column_name2 data_type,
column_name3 data_type,
...
)
CREATE INDEX CREATE INDEX index_name
ON table_name (column_name)
or
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name
ON table_name (column_name)
CREATE VIEW CREATE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
DELETE DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE some_column=some_value
or
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 DELETE FROM table_name
(Note: Deletes the entire table!!)
DELETE * FROM table_name
(Note: Deletes the entire table!!)
DROP DATABASE DROP DATABASE database_name
DROP INDEX DROP INDEX table_name.index_name (SQL Server)
DROP INDEX index_name ON table_name (MS Access)
DROP INDEX index_name (DB2/Oracle)
ALTER TABLE table_name
DROP INDEX index_name (MySQL)
DROP TABLE DROP TABLE table_name
EXISTS IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE id = ?)
BEGIN
--do what needs to be done if exists
END
ELSE
BEGIN
--do what needs to be done if not
END
GROUP BY SELECT column_name, aggregate_function(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator value
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING SELECT column_name, aggregate_function(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator value
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING aggregate_function(column_name) operator value
IN SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name
IN (value1,value2,..)
INSERT INTO INSERT INTO table_name
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,....)
or
INSERT INTO table_name
(column1, column2, column3,...)
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,....)
INNER JOIN SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name1
INNER JOIN table_name2
ON table_name1.column_name=table_name2.column_name
LEFT JOIN SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name1
LEFT JOIN table_name2
ON table_name1.column_name=table_name2.column_name

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RIGHT JOIN SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name1
RIGHT JOIN table_name2
ON table_name1.column_name=table_name2.column_name
FULL JOIN SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name1
FULL JOIN table_name2
ON table_name1.column_name=table_name2.column_name
LIKE SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name LIKE pattern
ORDER BY SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column_name [ASC|DESC]
SELECT SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
SELECT * SELECT *
FROM table_name
SELECT DISTINCT SELECT DISTINCT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
SELECT INTO SELECT *
INTO new_table_name [IN externaldatabase]
FROM old_table_name
or
SELECT column_name(s)
INTO new_table_name [IN externaldatabase]
FROM old_table_name
SELECT TOP SELECT TOP number|percent column_name(s)
FROM table_name
TRUNCATE TABLE TRUNCATE TABLE table_name
UNION SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name1
UNION
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name2
UNION ALL SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name1
UNION ALL
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name2
UPDATE UPDATE table_name
SET column1=value, column2=value,...
WHERE some_column=some_value
WHERE SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator value

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