STRUCTURED QUERY

LANGUAGE(SQL)
 Basic Database concepts

Data :- Raw facts and figures which are useful to an

organization. We cannot take decisions on the basis of
data.

Information:- Well processed data is called

information. We can take decisions on the basis of
information

Field: Set of characters that represents specific data

element.

Record: Collection of fields is called a record. A record

can have fields of different data types.
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Database: Collection of logically related data along

with its description is termed as database.

Tuple: A row in a relation is called a tuple.

Attribute: A column in a relation is called an attribute.

It is also termed as field or data item.

Degree: Number of attributes in a relation is called

degree of a relation.

Cardinality: Number of tuples in a relation is called

cardinality of a relation.
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Primary Key: Primary key is a key that can uniquely

identifies the records/tuples in a relation. This key can
never be duplicated and NULL.

Foreign Key: Foreign Key is a key that is defined as a

primary key in some other relation. This key is used to
enforce referential integrity in RDBMS.

Candidate Key: Set of all attributes which can serve as a

primary key in a relation.

Alternate Key: All the candidate keys other than the

primary keys of a relation are alternate keys for a relation.
 Basic Database concepts

DBA: Data Base Administrator is a person (manager)

that is responsible for defining the data base schema,
setting security features in database, ensuring proper
functioning of the data bases etc.
STRUCTURED QUERY
LANGUAGE
(SQL)
 Structured Query Language

SQL is a non procedural language that is used to create,

manipulate and process the databases(relations).

Characteristics of SQL

It is very easy to learn and use.

Large volume of databases can be handled quite easily.

It is non procedural language. It means that we do not

need to specify the procedures to accomplish a task but just
to give a command to perform the activity.

SQL can be linked to most of other high level languages

that makes it first choice for the database programmers.
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Processing Capabilities of SQL

The following are the processing capabilities of SQL.

1.Data Definition Language (DDL)

DDL contains commands that are used to create the tables,

databases, indexes, views, sequences and synonyms etc.

e.g: Create table, create view, alter table

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Processing Capabilities of SQL

2. Data Manipulation Language (DML)

DML contains command that can be used to manipulate the

data base objects and to query the databases for
information retrieval.

e.g Select, Insert, Delete, Update.

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Processing Capabilities of SQL

3. View Definition:

DDL contains set of command to create a view of a relation.

e.g : create view

4. Data Control Language:

This language is used for controlling the access to the data.

The commonly used commands DCL are,

GRANT, REVOKE
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Processing Capabilities of SQL

5. Transaction Control Language (TCL)

TCL include commands to control the transactions in a data

base system. The commonly used commands in TCL are

COMMIT, ROLLBACK
 Data types of SQL
Just like any other programming language, the facility of
defining data of various types is available in SQL also.
Following are the most common data types of SQL.

1. INTEGER
2. SMALLINT
3. CHAR
4. VARCHAR / VARCHAR2
5. DATE
6. LONG
7. RAW/LONG RAW
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1. INTEGER

Used to store a numeric value in a field/column without

decimal point. General syntax is:

INT

2. SMALLINT

Used to store a numeric value in a field/column without

decimal point. General syntax is:

SMALLINT
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1. Decimal

Used to store a numeric value in a field/column. It may be

decimal, integer or a real value. General syntax is:

Decimal(n,d)

Where n specifies the number of digits and

d specifies the number of digits to the right of the decimal

point.

number(5,2) declares pct to be of type number of 5

digits with two digits to the right of decimal point.
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2. CHAR

Used to store character type data in a column. General

syntax is
char (size)

where size represents the maximum number of characters in

a column. The CHAR type data can hold at most 255
characters.

e.g name char(25) declares a data item name of type

character of upto 25 size long.
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3. VARCHAR/VARCHAR2

This data type is used to store variable length alphanumeric

data. General syntax is,

varchar(size) / varchar2(size)

where size represents the maximum number of characters in

a column. The maximum allowed size in this data type is
2000 characters.

e.g address varchar(50);

address is of type varchar of upto 50 characters long.

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4. DATE

Date data type is used to store dates in columns. SQL

supports the various date formats other that the standard
YYYY/MM/DD.

e.g dob date; declares dob to be of type date.

5. LONG

This data type is used to store variable length strings of upto

2 GB size.

e.g description long;

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6. RAW/LONG RAW

To store binary data (images/pictures/animation/clips etc.)

RAW or LONG RAW data type is used. A column LONG
RAW type can hold upto 2 GB of binary data.

e.g image raw(2000);

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Mysql> Show databases; //To see databases in mysql

Mysql> create database school; //To create new database school

Mysql> use database school; // to use database school

Mysql> show tables; //To see tables in the database school

Mysql> desc students; // To see the structure of table students

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CREATE TABLE Command:

Create table command is used to create a table in SQL. It is

a DDL type of command. The general syntax of creating a
table is

create table <table> (

<column 1> <data type> [not null] [unique] [<column
constraint>],
.........
<column n> <data type> [not null] [unique] [<column
constraint>],
[<table constraint(s)>]
);
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CREATE TABLE Command:

For each column, a name and a data type must be specified

and the column name must be unique within the table
definition. Column definitions are separated by comma.
Uppercase and lowercase letters makes no difference in
column names, the only place where upper and lower case
letters matter are strings comparisons. A not null Constraint
means that the column cannot have null value, that is a
value needs to be supplied for that column. The keyword
unique specifies that no two tuples can have the same
attribute value for this column.
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Constraints:

Constraints are the conditions that can be enforced on the

attributes of a relation. The constraints come in play when
ever we try to insert, delete or update a record in a relation.

1. NOT NULL
2. UNIQUE
3. PRIMARY KEY
4. FOREIGN KEY
5. CHECK
6. DEFAULT
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Constraints:

1. NOT NULL: Ensures that we cannot leave a column as

null. That is a value has to be supplied for that column.

e.g name varchar(25) not null;

2. UNIQUE: Constraint means that the values under that

column are always unique.

e.g Roll_no number(3) unique;

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Constraints:

3. PRIMARY KEY: Constraint means that a column can not

have duplicate values and not even a null value.

e.g. Roll_no number(3) primary key;

The main difference between unique and primary key

constraint is that a column specified as unique may have
null value but primary key constraint does not allow null
values in the column.
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Constraints:

4. FOREIGN KEY: Is used to enforce referential integrity

and is declared as a primary key in some other table.

e.g cust_id varchar(5) references master(cust_id);

it declares cust_id column as a foreign key that refers to

cust_id field of table master. That means we cannot insert
that value in cust_id filed whose corresponding value is not
present in cust_id field of master table.
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Constraints:

5. CHECK: Constraint limits the values that can be inserted

into a column of a table.

e.g marks int check(marks>=0);

The above statement declares marks to be of type number

and while inserting or updating the value in marks it is
ensured that its value is always greater than or equal to
zero.
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Constraints:

6. DEFAULT: Constraint is used to specify a default value to

a column of a table automatically. This default value will be
used when user does not enter any value for that column.
e.g balance integer default 0;

CREATE TABLE student (

Roll_no int primary key,
Name varchar(25) not null,
Class varchar(10),
Marks int check(marks>=0),
City varchar(25) default ”Ahd”);
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TABLE : STUDENT
Roll_no Name Class Marks City

Note that we have just added a attributes/Fields. Insert command

will be used to add the records.

mysql> desc student;

will give structure of the table with datatype and size
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ALTER TABLE Command

In SQL if we ever need to change the structure of the

database then ALTER TABLE command is used. By using
this command we can add a column in the existing table,
delete a column from a table or modify columns in a table.

Adding a column
The syntax to add a column is:-

ALTER TABLE table_name

ADD column_name datatype;
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ALTER TABLE Command

e.g ALTER TABLE student ADD(Address varchar(30));

The above command add a column Address to the table

student.

If we give command

SELECT * FROM student;

The following data gets displayed on screen:

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ALTER TABLE Command

Removing a column

ALTER TABLE table_name

DROP COLUMN column_name;

e.g ALTER TABLE Student

DROP COLUMN Address;

The column Address will be removed from the table student

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TABLE : STUDENT

Roll_no Name Class Marks City Address

Note that we have just added a column and there will be no data
under this attribute. Insert/UPDATE command can be used to
supply values / data to this column and update data once added.
mysql> desc student; will give structure of the table
DROP TABLE Command

Sometimes you may need to drop a table which is not in

use. DROP TABLE command is used to Delete / drop a
table permanently. It should be kept in mind that we can not
drop a table if it contains records. That is first all the rows of
the table have to be deleted and only then the table can be
dropped.
The general syntax of this command is:-

DROP TABLE <table_name>;

e.g DROP TABLE student;

This command will remove the table student

mysql> desc student; will give error
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Operators in SQL:

The following are the commonly used operators in SQL

Arithmetic Operators +, -, *, /
Relational Operators =, <, >, <=, >=, <>
Logical Operators OR, AND, NOT

Arithmetic operators are used to perform simple

arithmetic operations.

Relational Operators are used when two values are to be

compared and

Logical operators are used to connect search conditions

in the WHERE Clause in SQL.
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Data Modifications in SQL

After a table has been created using the create table

command, tuples can be inserted into the table, or tuples
can be deleted or modified.
INSERT Statement
The simplest way to insert a tuple into a table is to use the
insert statement

insert into <table> [(<column i, . . . , column j>)] values

(<value i, . . . , value j>);

INSERT INTO student

VALUES(101,’Rohan’,’XI’,400,‘Chennai‘,’1992/12/23’);
// (can use 19921223 i.e without slash)

INSERT INTO student (column1,column2)

VALUES(101,’Rohan’);

While inserting the record it should be checked that the

values passed are of same data types as the one which is
specified for that particular column.
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TABLE : STUDENT
Roll_no Name Class Marks City DOB
101 Rohan XI 400 Chennai 1992/12/23

102 Aneeta XII 390 Bengaluru 1993/11/03

103 Pawan IX 298 Mysore 1992/02/21

Kumar
104 Rohan IX 376 Mangalore 1993/11/12

105 Sanjay VII 240 Mumbai 1992/01/30

113 Anju VIII 432 Delhi 1993/08/25

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Queries:

To retrieve information from a database we can query the

databases. SQL SELECT statement is used to select rows
and columns from a database/relation

SELECT Command

This command can perform selection as well as projection.

Selection: This capability of SQL can return you the

tuples form a relation with all the attributes.

Projection: This is the capability of SQL to return only

specific attributes in the relation.
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SELECT Command

 SELECT * FROM student; command will display

all the tuples in the relation student

 SELECT * FROM student WHERE Roll_no <=102;

The above command display only those records whose

Roll_no less than or equal to 102.

Select command can also display specific attributes from a

relation.
 SELECT name, class FROM student;
The above command displays only name and class
attributes from student table.
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SELECT Command

 SELECT count(*) AS “Total Number of Records”

FROM student;

Display the total number of records with title as “Total

Number of Records” i.e an alias

We can also use arithmetic operators in select statement,

like
 SELECT Roll_no, name, marks+20 FROM student;

 SELECT name, (marks/500)*100 FROM student

WHERE Roll_no > 103;
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Eliminating Duplicate/Redundant data

DISTINCT keyword is used to restrict the duplicate rows

from the results of a SELECT statement.

e.g. SELECT DISTINCT name FROM student;

The above command returns,

Name
Rohan
Aneeta
Pawan Kumar
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Conditions based on a range

SQL provides a BETWEEN operator that defines a range of

values that the column value must fall for the condition to
become true.

e.g. SELECT Roll_no, name FROM student WHERE

Roll_no BETWEEN 100 AND 103;

The above command displays Roll_no and name of those

students whose Roll_no lies in the range 100 to 103 (both
100 and 103 are included in the range).
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Conditions based on a list

To specify a list of values, IN operator is used. This operator

select values that match any value in the given list.

e.g. SELECT * FROM student WHERE city IN

(‘Bengaluru’,’Delhi’,’Chennai’);

The above command displays all those records whose city is

either Bengaluru or Delhi or Chennai
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Conditions based on Pattern

SQL provides two wild card characters that are used while
comparing the strings with LIKE operator.

a. percent ( % ) Matches any string

b. Underscore ( _ ) Matches any one character

e.g SELECT Roll_no, name, city FROM student WHERE

Roll_no LIKE “%3”;

displays those records where last digit of Roll_no is 3 and

may have any number of characters in front.
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Conditions based on Pattern

e.g SELECT Roll_no, name, city FROM student WHERE

Roll_no LIKE “1_3”;

displays those records whose Roll_no starts with 1 and

second letter may be any letter but ends with digit 3.
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ORDER BY Clause

ORDER BY clause is used to display the result of a query in

a specific order(sorted order).

The sorting can be done in ascending or in descending

order. It should be kept in mind that the actual data in the
database is not sorted but only the results of the query are
displayed in sorted order.

e.g. SELECT name, city FROM student ORDER BY

name;

The above query returns name and city columns of table

student sorted by name in increasing/ascending order.
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ORDER BY Clause

e.g. SELECT * FROM student ORDER BY city DESC;

It displays all the records of table student ordered by city in

descending order.

Note:- If order is not specifies that by default the sorting

will be performed in ascending order.
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GROUP BY Clause

The GROUP BY clause can be used in a SELECT statement

to collect data across multiple records and group the results
by one or more columns.

The syntax for the GROUP BY clause is:

SELECT column1, column2, ... column_n,

aggregate_function (expression)
FROM tables
WHERE conditions
GROUP BY column1, column2, ... column_n;
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GROUP BY Clause

aggregate_function can be a function such as SUM,

COUNT, MAX, MIN, AVG etc.

e.gSELECT name, COUNT(*) as "Number of

students“ FROM student WHERE marks>350

GROUP BY city;
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HAVING Clause

The HAVING clause is used in combination with the GROUP

BY clause. It can be used in a SELECT statement to filter
the records that a GROUP BY returns.

The syntax for the HAVING clause is:

SELECT column1, column2, ... column_n,

aggregate_function (expression)
FROM tables
WHERE predicates
GROUP BY column1, column2, ... column_n
HAVING condition1 ... condition_n;
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HAVING Clause

e.g SELECT SUM(marks) as "Total marks"

FROM student
GROUP BY department
HAVING SUM(sales) > 1000;

Note: select statement can contain only those attribute

which are already present in the group by clause.
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Functions available in SQL

SQL provide large collection of inbuilt functions also called

library functions that can be used directly in SQL statements.

1. Mathematical functions

2. String functions

3. Date & Time functions

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DELETE Command

To delete the record fro a table SQL provides a delete

statement. General syntax is:-

DELETE FROM <table_name> [WHERE <condition>];

e.g. DELETE FROM student WHERE city = ‘Chennai’;

( Delete from student // deletes all the data from student)

This command deletes all those records whose city is

Chennai.
NOTE: It should be kept in mind that while comparing
with the string type values lowercase and uppercase
letters are treated as different. That is ‘Jammu’ and
‘jammu’ is different while comparing.
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UPDATE Command

To update the data stored in the data base, UOPDATE

command is used.

e. g. UPDATE student SET marks = marks + 100;

Increase marks of all the students by 100.

e. g. UPDATE student SET City = ‘Hydrabad’

WHERE city = ‘Bangaluru’;

changes the city of those students to Hydrabad whose city is

Bangaluru.
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UPDATE Command

We can also update multiple columns with update

command, like

e. g. UPDATE student set marks = marks + 20, city

= ‘Mangalore’
WHERE city NOT IN (‘Delhi’,’Mysore’);
 Relational Algebra

It is the collections of rules and operations on

relations(tables). The various operations are selection,
projection, Cartesian product, union, set difference and
intersection, and joining of relations.
Cartesian OR CROSS JOIN

 The CARTESIAN
JOIN or CROSS
JOIN returns the
Cartesian
product of the
sets of records
from two or
more joined
tables. Thus, it
equates to an
inner join.
SQL> SELECT ID, NAME,
AMOUNT, DATE FROM
CUSTOMERS, ORDERS;
 SELECTION AND PROJECTION

Projection means choosing which columns (or expressions)

the query shall return.

Select roll_no, name from Students;

Selection means which rows are to be returned.

Select * from Students where roll_no= 2

 Relational Algebra

Define the terms:

i. Database Abstraction

Ans: Database system provides the users only that much

information that is required by them, and hides certain
details like, how the data is stored and maintained in
database at hardware level. This concept/process is
Database abstraction.

ii. Data inconsistency

Ans: When two or more entries about the same data do not
agree i.e. when one of them stores the updated information
and the other does not, it results in data inconsistency in the
database.
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Define the terms:

iii. Conceptual level of database implementation/abstraction

Ans: It describes what data are actually stored in the

database. It also describes the relationships existing among
data. At this level the database is described logically in
terms of simple data-structures.

iv. Primary Key

Ans : It is a key/attribute or a set of attributes that can

uniquely identify tuples within the relation.
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Define the terms:

v. Candidate Key

Ans : All attributes combinations inside a relation that can

serve as primary key are candidate key as they are
candidates for being as a primary key or a part of it.

vi. Relational Algebra

Ans : It is the collections of rules and operations on

relations(tables). The various operations are selection,
projection, Cartesian product, union, set difference and
intersection, and joining of relations.
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Define the terms:

vii. Domain

Ans : it is the pool or collection of data from which the actual

values appearing in a given column are drawn.
Thank You
Very Much