Restructuring the Appearance of Data
by Ryan K. Stephens, Ronald R. Plew
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Second Edition
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
- A SQL Concepts Overview
- Building Your Database
- Getting Effective Results from Queries
- Building Sophisticated Database Queries
- SQL Performance Tuning
- Using SQL to Manage Users and Security
- Summarized Data Structures
- Applying SQL Fundamentals in Today's World
- Appendixes
- Common SQL Commands
- ASCII Table
- Answers to Quizzes and Exercises
- Hour 1, "Welcome to the World of SQL"
- Hour 2, "Defining Data Structures"
- Hour 3, "Managing Database Objects"
- Hour 4, "The Normalization Process"
- Hour 5, "Manipulating Data"
- Hour 6, "Managing Database Transactions"
- Hour 7, "Introduction to the Database Query"
- Hour 8, "Using Operators to Categorize Data"
- Hour 9, "Summarizing Data Results from a Query"
- Hour 10, "Sorting and Grouping Data"
- Hour 11, "Restructuring the Appearance of Data"
- Hour 12, "Understanding Dates and Time"
- Hour 13, "Joining Tables in Queries"
- Hour 14, "Using Subqueries to Define Unknown Data"
- Hour 15, "Combining Multiple Queries into One"
- Hour 16, "Using Indexes to Improve Performance"
- Hour 17, "Improving Database Performance"
- Hour 18, "Managing Database Users"
- Hour 19, "Managing Database Security"
- Hour 20, "Creating and Using Views and Synonyms"
- Hour 21, "Working with the System Catalog"
- Hour 22, "Advanced SQL Topics"
- Hour 23, "Extending SQL to the Enterprise, the Internet, and the Intranet"
- Hour 24, "Extensions to Standard SQL"
- CREATE TABLE Statements for Book Examples
- INSERT Statements for Data in Book Examples
- Glossary
- Index
Hour 11. Restructuring the Appearance of Data
During this hour, you learn how to restructure the appearance of output results using a wide array of functions, some ANSI standard functions, and other functions based on the standard and several variations used by some major SQL implementations.
This hour's highlights include
Introduction to character functions
How and when to use character functions
Examples of ANSI SQL functions
Examples of common implementation-specific functions
Overview of conversion functions
How and when to use conversion functions
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