Sql Design Patterns: Expert Guide To Sql Programming

Not Suitable for Beginners

This indispensable SQL reference book is the first-of- its-kind to leverage the benefits of design patterns to relational database SQL queries. Leveraging on the success of programming design patterns books, SQL guru Vadim Tropashko categorizes and describes all common SQL structures and design patterns.

This is an important book for programmers and managers alike. Because SQL is a declarative language there are many ways to write any SQL query and convoluted and clumsy SQL syntax has become a maintenance nightmare. Professional database programmers must understand the correct way to write SQL for complicated database queries, and managers must institute formal SQL coding standards to improve productivity and maintainability.

As relational databases structures become more complex, so do their SQL queries. Complex SQL becomes difficult to understand and maintain, especially with novices who pile-on nested subqueries, and all SQL programmer must learn rudimentary SQL theory, which classifies known SQL solutions into common patterns.

SQL design patterns greatly improve the quality and productivity of systems development projects because SQL design patterns form a "best practices" foundation for all relational database queries. The SQL programmers benefit from using SQL design patterns since all query structures are standardized with common approaches, and management benefits by having standardized and maintainable SQL syntax.

This book is both pragmatic and academic, a worthy academic book that emphasizes theoretical foundation for almost every type of SQL query problem. Most of the material has accompanying figures that help visualizing the problem.

This is not a book for casual programmers or dilettantes. It is specifically created for professional SQL developers who need to solve complex problems using common SQL idioms.

Key Features

• Learn the SQL best practices used by successful professionals.
  
  
• Improve productivity and maintainability with SQL coding standards.
  
  
• Learn relational division, set joins, user-defined aggregates, pivot, and many other advanced patterns.
  
  
• Learn how SQL Design Patterns create common solutions.
  
  
• See proven best practices for SQL coding styles.
  
  
• Learn (literally!) countless ways to implement integer generators in SQL.
  
  
• Understand how to perform complex data manipulation with SQL advanced predicates.
  
  
• Leverage materialized views to implement ANSI SQL assertions.
  
  
• Explore hierarchical SQL queries.

About the Authors
Vadim Tropashko graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1984. Tropashko researched Petri Nets for five years following graduation. In the early 90s, his interests switched to OOP. Tropashko translated The C++ Programming Language by B.Stroustrup into Russian. He was a C++ instructor at University of Radio and Electronics in Belarus. In the mid 90s, Tropashko's interest changed from OOP to databases. Vadim Tropashko has now worked for Oracle since 1998.