On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, T E Schmitz wrote:
> I was feeling a bit guilty about posting such a trivial question. I can
> cobble together some straightforward SQL but I could really do with a
> source of more complex SQL examples.
> If you know of any links - that would great and save the list from more
> such questions ;-)
SQL for Smarties has some more complicated examples and topics for
"advanced" type queries. I can't say it's exhaustive, but I found it
a good bridge by hinting at what is really possible. I also found that
a good way to improve is to try to write every complicated query by
using all the different ways I can think of, like:
- UNION (ALL)
- SUB-SELECT
- LEFT OUTER JOINS
- HAVING
etc.
Here is the link for SQL for Smarties:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558605762/002-2222957-7220055?v=glance
The bad thing about the book is that it is sort of SQL agnostic, so
some of the examples would be sub-optimal on postgresql, or may not
even work.
I would like to hear about other sources too.