Database Access using SQL A basic introduction James Brucker.

Database Access using SQL

A basic introduction

James Brucker

Database Management System

Database: a structured, self-describing collection of data.

Control access to the database. • authentication• enforce permissions• data integrity• access services

Database

Manager

User Interface & communication protocol

SELECT * FROM city WHERE name LIKE Ban%

Client

Client - Server Databases

Database Server is a separate process on a host. Clients can be on any machine. Many programs may be clients using a standard API.

Servermysqld

"mysql" utility

Java App +JDBC client

Excel client

Server sideClient side

server controls access to database

Install Client Software

For this lab, you will access MySQL server on the network. All you need is a client application. You don't need to run a MySQL server on your computer.

Client Tools

mysql-workbench-gpl-5.x.y-win32.msi

or use older GUI Tools:

mysql-gui-tools-5.1.7-win32.msi

From: se.cpe.ku.ac.th/download/mysql

Add MySQL "bin" to your Path

This is so you can run the "mysql" command line.

On Windows:

1. Right-click My Computer.

2. Choose Properties.

3. Click "Advanced".

4. Click "Environment Variables".

5. Edit PATH variable and add:

C:\Windows\blah;C:\Program Files\MySql\bin

Exercise

Use the "mysql" command if machine doesn't have "mysql" then use MySQL

Query Browser GUI. What is the client version number? Use help: how do you connect to a server?

dos> mysql --version

mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.16, for Win32

dos> mysql --help

displays a long help message

Exercise

Connect to MySQL server on host "se.cpe.ku.ac.th".

user: student password: student

What MySQL version is the server?

dos> mysql -h se.cpe.ku.ac.th -u student -p

Enter password: nisit

mysql> SELECT version();

Structure of a Database

A database system may contain many databases. Each database is composed of schema and tables.

sql> USE bank;

sql> SHOW tables;+----------------+| Tables_in_bank |+----------------+| accounts || clients |+----------------+

sql> SHOW databases;+--------------+

| Database |

+--------------+

| mysql |

| test |

| bank |

| world |

+--------------+

MySQL only shows databases that a user has permission to access.

A Database Structure

Database

Schema

Tablefield1: t1field2: t2field3: t3

indexes

Schema


indexes


indexes


indexes

A database contains schema, which describe the organization of the database.

A schema can contain:

tables - containing data

index files - for fast lookup of data

stored procedures, constraints, triggers, and more

Contents of a Table

A table contains the actual data in records (rows). A record is composed of fields (columns). Each record contains one set of data values.

+------+------------+-------+-------------+---------+

| ID | Name | CCode | District | Populatn

+------+---------------+------------------+---------+| 3320 | Bangkok | THA | Bangkok | 6320174 || 3321 | Nonthaburi | THA | Nonthaburi | 292100 || 3323 | Chiang Mai | THA | Chiang Mai | 171100 |+------+------------+-------+-------------+---------+

records

(rows)

fields (columns)

Key field for Identifying Rows

A table contains a primary key that uniquely identifies a row of data.

Each record must have a distinct value of primary key The primary key is used to relate (join) tables.

+------+------------+-------+-------------+---------+

| ID | Name | CCode | District | Populatn

+------+---------------+------------------+---------+| 3320 | Bangkok | THA | Bangkok | 6320174 || 3321 | Nonthaburi | THA | Nonthaburi | 292100 || 3323 | Chiang Mai | THA | Chiang Mai | 171100 |+------+------------+-------+-------------+---------+

ID is the primary key in City table.

Structure of a Table

Every field has: a name a data type and length

To view the structure of a table use:

DESCRIBE tablename

sql> DESCRIBE City;+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| Field | Type | Null| Key | Default | Extra |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| ID | int(11) | NO | PRI | | auto_increment || Name | char(35) | NO | | | || CountryCode | char(3) | NO | | | || District | char(20) | NO | | | || Population | int(11) | NO | | 0 | |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+

Structure of a Table

"SHOW columns FROM tablename"

shows the same information.

sql> SHOW columns FROM City;+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| Field | Type | Null| Key | Default | Extra |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| ID | int(11) | NO | PRI | | auto_increment || Name | char(35) | NO | | | || CountryCode | char(3) | NO | | | || District | char(20) | NO | | | || Population | int(11) | NO | | 0 | |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+

Fields may have a default value to use if a value is not assigned explicitly.

Structured Query Language

Structured Query Language (SQL) is the standard language for accessing information a database.

SQL is case-insensitive and free format. Enter commands interactively or in a script file. SQL statements can use multiple lines

end each statement with a semi-colon ;

sql> USE world;

database changed.

sql> SHOW tables;

sql> SHOW columns FROM city;

sql> DECRIBE country;

SQL statements end with semi-colon.

Exercise

1. Connect to MySQL server on host "se.cpe.ku.ac.th".

user: student password: nisit

2. What databases are on the server?

3. What tables are in the world database?

dos> mysql -h se.cpe.ku.ac.th -u student -p

Enter password: nisit

mysql> SHOW databases;

mysql> USE world;

mysql> SHOW tables;

mysql> SHOW tables

FROM

world

;

Exercise

No semi-colon.

Omit the semi-colon. What happens? Enter a command on several lines

DESCRIBE

DESCRIBE shows the structure of a table. same as "SHOW columns FROM tablename".

sql> DESCRIBE city;+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| Field | Type | Null| Key | Default | Extra |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| ID | int(11) | NO | PRI | | auto_increment || Name | char(35) | NO | | | || CountryCode | char(3) | NO | | | || District | char(20) | NO | | | || Population | int(11) | NO | | 0 | |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+

Exercise

For the world database:

what fields does the Country table have?

what information is in the fields?

which fields contain strings? (char or varchar)

which fields contain floating point values?

what is the primary key of the Country table?

Exercise: Case Sensitivity

Is SQL case sensitive?

Are names of databases and tables case sensitive?

mysql> DESCRIBE city;

mysql> describe city;

mysql> use world;

mysql> use WORLD;

mysql> describe city;

mysql> describe City;

Exercise: O-O Analogy of a Table?

Database Object Oriented

table __________________

record (row) __________________

fields (columns) __________________

+------+------------+--------------+---------+

| ID | Name | District | Popula..}

+------+------------+--------------+---------+| 3320 | Bangkok | Bangkok | 6320174 || 3321 | Nonthaburi | Nonthaburi | 292100 || 3323 | Chiang Mai | Chiang Mai | 171100 |+------+------------+--------------+---------+

fields (columns)

records

(rows)

Qualifying Names

SQL uses "." to qualify elements of a hierarchy

just like most O-O languages

World.city "city" table in World db

city.name name field in city table

World.city.name fully qualified name

sql> DESCRIBE World.country;...sql> SELECT country.name from country;

4 Basic Database Operations

The 4 most common operations:

SELECT query (search) the data

INSERT add new records to a table(s)

UPDATE modify existing record(s)

DELETE delete record(s) from a table

What is CRUD?

Programmers call these operations "CRUD".

What does CRUD stand for?

Querying Data in a Table

SELECT displays field values from a table:

SELECT field1, field2, field3 FROM table ;

displays ALL rows from the table.

use LIMIT number to limit how many results.

sql> SELECT accountNumber, balance FROM accounts;+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

| accountNumber | accountName | clientID | balance |

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

| 11111113 | P.Watanapong | 00001001 | 300000 |

| 11111114 | CPE Fund | 00001002 | 1840000 |

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

SELECT statement with *

Display values for all fields in table:

SELECT * FROM tablename ;

sql> SELECT * from accounts;+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+


+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

| 11111113 | P.Watanapong | 00001001 | 300000 |

| 11111114 | CPE Fund | 00001002 | 1840000 |

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

Qualifying SELECT

Select columns from a table that match some criteria:

SELECT field1, field2, field3

FROM table

WHERE condition

ORDER BY field1,... [ASC|DESC];

Example: cities with population > 5 M

sql> SELECT * FROM City WHERE population > 5000000

ORDER BY population DESC;

Strings in SQL

Use single quote mark around String constants.

SELECT * FROM Country

WHERE name = 'Thailand';

SELECT * FROM City

WHERE Name = 'Los Angeles';

Exercises

1. What are the first 3 cities in the database?

2. What are the 3 most populous countries in the world?

3. What is the smallest country in the world? How big?

Exercises for Thailand

1. What is the country code for Thailand?

SELECT * from ... WHERE name = 'Thailand'

2. List the cities in Thailand, sorted by largest population to smallest. Use "ORDER BY ..."

3. What languages are spoken in Thailand?

4. What countries speak Thai?

WHERE conditions

name = 'Bangkok' equality test

name LIKE 'Bang%' pattern match

population >= 100000

population < 500000

gnp <> 0

relations

<> is not equals

grade IN ('A','B','C','D','F')

contained in set

Exercise with WHERE & ORDER

1. What is the most populous country in Europe?

use WHERE continent = ...

2. What countries have name beginning with 'Z'?

3. In Thailand what cities have names like Ban______

Count Function

Select can be used with functions, such as COUNT:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM accounts WHERE balance=0;

sql> SELECT COUNT(*) from accounts;+----------+

| count(*) |

+----------+

| 4 |

+----------+

sql> SELECT COUNT(*) from accounts

WHERE balance > 1000000;

Exercise

1. How many countries are in the database?

2. How many cities are in China?

3. How many countries are in Europe?

Other Functions in SQL

Functions can have arguments, just like C, Java, etc.

SUM( expression )

MAX( expression )

MIN( expression )

COUNT( expression )

sql> SELECT MAX(SurfaceArea) FROM country;1075400.00 (sq.km.)

WRONG: This will NOT find the largest country!

sql> SELECT MAX(SurfaceArea), Name FROM country;1075400.00 Afghanistan

SELECT functions

How many people are in the world?

SELECT SUM(Population) FROM Country;

How big is the largest country in Asia?

SELECT MAX(SurfaceArea)

FROM Country WHERE continent='Asia';

What is the version of MySQL?

SELECT version();

Exercise

1. What is the total GNP of the entire world?

sql> SELECT sum(GNP) FROM country

1. What are the richest countries (GNP per person) in the world?

sql> SELECT name, GNP/population FROM country ORDER BY GNP/population DESC LIMIT 20;

What are the most crowded countries (people per surface area) in Asia?

Exercise for Functions

Harder:

What are total population and total GNP of each continent?

Hint: use GROUP BY continent

Expressions and Arithmetic

You can use expressions in SQL.

Arithmetic: + - * / % sqrt()

Grouping: ( )

String ops: substring( ), upper(), length( )

Example: display GNP per person for each country

sql> SELECT name, gnp/population AS capita_gnp

FROM country

ORDER BY capita_gnp DESC;

Value of GNP is in millions of US Dollars. How can you show per capita GNP in dollars???

alias

Exercise

1. What countries are the richest? Poorest?

Show the GNP per capita (in US dollars).

Order the results by GNP per capita.

2. What countries are the most crowded?

Crowding refers to population per surface area.

Wildcards to match patterns

Pattern matches: field LIKE 'pattern'

SELECT * FROM city

WHERE name LIKE 'Ban%';

% means "match anything"

Adding New Records

INSERT adds a new record to a table

INSERT INTO table

VALUES ( data1, data2, ...);

sql> INSERT INTO Accounts VALUES

('22222222', 'Ample Rich', '00000001' 10000000);Query OK, 1 row affected.

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+


+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

| 22222222 | Ample Rich | 00000001 |10000000 |

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

INSERT into columns by name

INSERT INTO table (field1, field2, ...)

VALUES ( data1, data2, ...);

sql> INSERT INTO Accounts

(accountNumber, balance, accountName)

VALUES

('22222222', 10000000, 'Ample Rich'); Query OK, 1 row affected.

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+


+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

| 20000000 | Ample Rich | |10000000 |

+---------------+---------------+----------+---------+

Exercise

Add your home town to the City table

or, add another city to the City table.

sql> INSERT INTO city

(name, countryCode, district, population)

VALUES

('Bangsaen', 'THA', 'Chonburi', 30000); Query OK, 1 row affected.

The ID field has a qualifier "AUTO_INCREMENT".

(see: "DESCRIBE City")

This means MySQL will assign the ID value itself.

Exercise

View the City data that you just added!

Correct any errors using UPDATE

sql> SELECT * FROM City

WHERE City.name = 'Bangsaen';

sql> UPDATE City SET population = 33000

WHERE City.name = 'Bangsaen';

Query OK, 1 row affected.

Warning: INSERT is immediate

Change occurs immediately.

unless you are using transactions

Duplicate data is possible.

3 ways to add data to a table

1. INSERT command (boring).

2. Write INSERT commands in a text file and "source" the file (better).

sql> SOURCE mydata.sql

3. IMPORT command (syntax depends on DBMS):

sql> LOAD DATA INFILE 'filename' INTO table ...

Copying Data Between Tables

Suppose we have another table named NewAccts

NewAccts has accountNumber, accountName, ...

INSERT INTO table (field1, field2, ...)

SELECT field1, field2, field3

FROM other_table

WHERE condition;

sql> INSERT INTO Accounts

SELECT * FROM NewAccounts

WHERE accountNumber NOT NULL;

UPDATE multiple columns

You can change multiple columns:

UPDATE table

SET field1=value1, field2=value2WHERE condition;

sql> UPDATE country SET population=68100000, gnp=345600 WHERE code='THA';

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.09 sec)

Example: Update population and GNP of Thailand

Source: CIA World Factbook (on the web)

Warning: don't forget WHERE

UPDATE can change every row in a database

Make sure that your WHERE clause selects only records you want to change!

sql> UPDATE country

SET population=68100000, gnp=345600 ;

Query OK, 240 rows affected (0.14 sec)

Changed every country in the database!!

Oops! I forgot "WHERE ..."

Warning: UPDATE is immediate!

Changes occur immediately. (Can't undo w/o trans.)

Be Careful! If you forget the WHERE clause it will change all the rows in the table!

sql> UPDATE country SET HeadOfState='Obama';

/* Oops! I forgot "WHERE ..." */+------+----------------+-------------+--------------+| Code | Name | Continent | HeadOfState |+------+----------------+-------------+--------------+| AFG | Afghanistan | Asia | Obama || NLD | Netherlands | Europe | Obama || ALB | Albania | Europe | Obama || DZA | Algeria | Africa | Obama || ASM | American Samoa | Oceania | Obama || AND | Andorra | Europe | Obama || AGO | Angola | Africa | Obama |

Obama rules!

Exercise

Update the City you added to the database. Change its population.

Deleting Records

DELETE one or more records

DELETE FROM tablename WHERE condition;

Example: Delete all cities with zero population

sql> DELETE FROM City WHERE population <= 0;

Query OK, 5 rows deleted.

Warning: DELETE can delete all

DELETE affects all rows that match.

DELETE FROM tablename WHERE condition;

Example: Delete all cities with zero population

sql> DELETE FROM City

WHERE population <= 0; Query OK, 5 rows deleted.

Safer Delete

First SELECT the key of the row you want

sql> SELECT id FROM City WHERE name='Bangsaen';

6402

If only one match, then delete using primary key

sql> DELETE FROM City WHERE id=6402;

Relating Tables

The power of a relational database is the ability to selectively combine data from many tables.

select data from multiple tables by matching values

Relationship can be:

1-to-1 student -> photograph

1-to-many country -> city

many-to-1 city -> country

many-to-many language -> country

Keys

Every table should have a primary key that uniquely identifies each row.

CityID (PK)NameCountryCode (FK)PopulationDistrict

CountryCode (PK)NameContinentCapital...

CountryCode

sql> DESCRIBE Country;+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| Field | Type | Null| Key | Default | Extra |+-------------+-----------+-----+-----+---------+----------------+| Code | char(3) | NO | PRI | | || Name | char(52) | NO | | | || ... | | | | | |

Joining Tables

Relate or "join" tables using a condition.

Use "table.field" to qualify a field name:

Country.code Country.name

City.countrycode = Country.code

1*

CityID (PK)NameCountryCode (FK)PopulationDistrict

CountryCode (PK)NameContinentCapital...

Example: Join Country and City

SELECT Country.Name, City.Name FROM Country, CityWHERE Country.Code = City.CountryCodeAND Continent = 'South America';

CountryCodeNameContinentRegionSurfaceAreaPopulationGNPLocalNameCapital

CityIDNameCountryCodeDistrictPopulation

Country.Code = City.CountryCode

Use Aliases to Reduce Typing

c is alias for Cityco is alias for Country

SELECT co.Name, c.Name FROM Country co, City cWHERE co.Code = c.CountryCodeAND co.Continent = 'South America';

Exercise: Cities in Laos

SELECT co.Name, c.Name, c.Population FROM Country co, City cWHERE ...AND ...;

List the city names and city populations in Laos.

Exercise

1. How can we find the name of the capital city for each country?

CountryCode (PK)NameContinentRegionSurfaceAreaPopulationGNPLocalNameCapital

CityID (PK)NameCountryCodeDistrictPopulation

Exercise Solution

List the country name and capital city name, for all countries in Asia.

SELECT co.name, c.name AS CapitalCity FROM Country co, City c

WHERE ...

AND ... ;

Exercise

1. How can we join the CountryLanguage table with the County table?

CountryCode (PK)NameContinentRegionSurfaceAreaPopulationGNPLocalNameCapital

CountryLanguageCountryCodeLanguageisOfficialPercentage

FROM Country CO, CountryLanguage L

WHERE ...

Exercise

1. In what countries is the Thai language spoken?

2. By what percentage of the people?

Example:

SELECT CO.name, L.language, L.percentage

FROM Country CO, CountryLanguage L

WHERE ...

AND ... ;

Answer using Aliases

In what countries is Chinese the official language?

SELECT C.name, L.language, L.percentage

FROM Country C, CountryLanguage L

WHERE C.code = L.countrycode

AND L.language LIKE '%Chinese'

AND isOfficial = 'T';

alias for CountryLanguageyou can omit table name

when there is no ambiguity

Exercise

1. What countries use English?

ORDER the results by percentage spoken, from largest to smallest %.

2. In how many countries is English the official language?

Harder

3. In the world, approximately how many people speak English?

sum( C.population * L.percentage / 100 )

JOIN

Joins tables

Many forms:

INNER JOIN (include only matching columns)

OUTER JOIN (include all columns)

LEFT OUTER JOIN

NATURAL JOIN

CONDITION JOIN

"JOIN" means "INNER JOIN" in MySql.

Example of a Condition Join

JOIN the CountryLanguage and Language tables using the country code:

SELECT CO.Name, L.language, L.percentage

FROM Country CO

JOIN CountryLanguage L

ON CO.code = L.countrycode

WHERE ...;

Exercise

JOIN the Country and Language tables.

View Country name and language with "SELECT ..."

How many times is Thailand listed in the results?

How can you order the results by language ?

Multiple Table Join

You can join many tables at one time:

SELECT CO.name, C.*, L.language

FROM Country CO


ON CO.code = L.countrycode

JOIN City C

ON CO.code = C.countrycode

WHERE ...; /* more conditions */

More SELECT Syntax

GROUP BY ...

GROUP BY ... is used when you want to apply a function (count, sum, avg) to a group of rows having a common characteristic.

Example: How many countries are in each continent?

SELECT continent, count(*) FROM country

GROUP BY continent

GROUP BY Exercise

What is the total population of each continent? use sum(population) and GROUP BY

SELECT continent, SUM(population)

FROM ...

GROUP BY ...

Logical operations

OR

SELECT * FROM City WHERE District='Songkhla' OR District='Bangkok';

AND

SELECT Name, SurfaceArea FROM Country WHERE Continent = 'Africa' AND SurfaceArea > 1000000;

NOT

SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE NOT AvailableBalance = 0;

Set operations

IN

SELECT * FROM City WHERE District IN ('Songkhla', 'Bangkok');

Exercise for matching

1. How many countries have a government that is any form of monarchy?

match any government containing 'Monarchy'

How many are some form of monarchy, but not a Constitutional Monarchy (like Thailand)?

GROUP BY ... HAVING ...

GROUP BY ... used to apply a function to a group of rows having a characteristic.

HAVING ... is used to put a condition on the groups.

Example: What countries have more than one official lanaguage???

SELECT countrycode, count(language)

FROM countrylanguage

???


(1) First, how to count official languages in each country?



WHERE isOfficial='T'

GROUP BY countrycode


(2) add HAVING to restrict results to count( ) > 1



WHERE isOfficial='T'

GROUP BY countrycode

HAVING count(language) > 1

Getting Help

Online help for HELP for the mysql command HELP for SQL statements

mysql> HELP

mysql> HELP SELECT

If MySql doesn't have help on SQL commands, then load the "help tables" data onto your server. Download help table data from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads in the "Documentation" section.

Subqueries

Use the result of one query as part of another query.

Example: Which country has the largest population?

SELECT Name, PopulationFROM countryWHERE Population = ( SELECT max(population) FROM country);

To use subqueries in MySQL you need version 4.1 or newer.

Subquery

Exercise

In which country do people live the longest? How long to they live?

SELECT Name, LifeExpectancy

FROM country

WHERE LifeExpectancy =( insert subquery here )

;

LIMIT instead of subquery

Another way to get a "most" or "least" result:

ORDER results by what you want. Use ASC or DESC

use LIMIT 1 to limit number of results.

SELECT Name, Population

FROM country

ORDER BY Population DESC

LIMIT 1;

Exercise

Which nation is the most crowded?

Find the country with maximum population density (population per sq. km.)

Show the name and the population density

Hint: create an alias for a computed field:

sql> SELECT name,population/surfaceArea AS densityWHERE ...

Alias: density := population/surfaceArea

Exercise

Is Thailand richer than other countries in Southest Asia?

List the name and GNP/population (=wealth) of countries in the same region as Thailand.

use a subquery for "the region of Thailand":

SELECT ...

FROM Country

WHERE region = (SELECT region WHERE ...)

ORDER BY ...;

order the results by wealth

Exercise: increasing wealth

Thailand has decided to annex (invade) either Cambodia, Laus, Vietnam, or Malaysia.

The invaded country will become part of the new Thailand.

The government wants the combined country to be wealthier than Thailand is now. "wealth" means GNP/population.

What country should Thailand invade?

Data Definition Commands

These commands alter the structure of a database

CREATE create a Table, Index, or Database

ALTER modify structure of a Database or Table

DROP delete an entire Table, Index, or Database

RENAME rename a Table

Creating a Table

To add a new table to a database:

CREATE TABLE tablename

(field1, field2, ... )

options ;

sql> CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER (

accountNumber VARCHAR(8) NOT NULL,

clientID VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,

balance DOUBLE DEFAULT '0',

availableBalance DOUBLE DEFAULT '0'

) ;

Query OK, 0 rows affected.

Productivity Hint

Type the "CREATE TABLE" statement into a file. "source" the file in mysql: source filename;

CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER (accountNumber CHAR(10) NOT NULL,clientID VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,balance DOUBLE DEFAULT '0',availableBalance DOUBLE DEFAULT '0',PRIMARY KEY( clientID )

) ;

File: /temp/create-table.sql

sql> SOURCE /temp/create-table.sql;


Deleting Records a Table

You must specify a "WHERE" clause for rows to delete.

If there is no "WHERE", it deletes all rows !!

DELETE FROM tablename

WHERE condition ;

-- first use SELECT to verify condition

sql> SELECT * FROM city

WHERE name="Bangsaen";

sql> DELETE FROM city

WHERE name="Bangsaen";

Query OK, 1 row affected.

Exercise

Delete the city you added to the City table.

On a friend's machine, is it deleted immediately?

Deleting a Table

Remove a table from the database

DROP TABLE tablename ;

sql> DROP TABLE CUSTOMER ;

Views

A View is like a "virtual table" containing selected data from one or more real tables.

CountryNameContinentCode...

CountryLanguage

LanguagePercentageisOfficial...

MyViewNameLanguagePercentage

CREATE VIEW MyView AS ...

View Example

Create a view for country name, languages, and percentage.

sql> CREATE VIEW lang AS

SELECT name, language, percentageFROM Country C, CountryLanguage LWHERE C.code = L.countrycodeORDER BY language ASC;


sql> SELECT * FROM lang WHERE language='Thai';

Use the view to browse data:

Productivity Hint

Type the "CREATE VIEW" statement into a file. Read the file into mysql: source filename;

CREATE VIEW lang AS

SELECT name, language, percentage

FROM Country C, CountryLanguage L

WHERE C.code = L.countrycode;

File: langview.sql

sql> SOURCE langview.sql;


Exercise

Create a view that shows these fields:

City.name as name

Country.name as country

Region

Population of the city

Official language

id of the city

Each person should use a different name for his view, to avoid interfering with each other.

List the tables in world ( show tables ).

Exercise

List the cities in Southest Asia where English is the official language and population is over 100,000.

Exercise

Ask MySQL to "describe" your view.

Delete your view:

DROP VIEW viewname ;

Review

What is the command to ...

1. list all the databases that you have access to?

2. use the Bank database?

3. view a list of tables in Bank?

4. view the structure of the Accounts table?

SQL Quiz

Database Game

Vocabulary

"largest" and "smallest" refer to size (surfaceArea).

"most populous", "least populous" refer to populationand population > 0. (exclude unpopulated nations)

"richest", "poorest" means GNP per capita not total GNP, and GNP > 0 (GNP = 0 means no data).

"most crowded" refers to population/surfaceArea

Language Hints

"Fortran is an official language" means its an official language of the country

"Pascal is spoken unofficially" means it is spoken, but not an official language

"COBOL is spoken" means COBOL is a language and percentage > 0

What is the World's Smallest Nation?

How big is it?

What is the Largest Country in Africa?

Show the SQL How big is it?

What are the Poorest Countries in Asia?

must have GNP data (GNP > 0)

List 3 poorest nations.

What is the GNP per person?

NOTE: GNP is measured in $1,000,000. Multiply your answer by 1,000,000 to get US$.

What is the Richest Country in the Middle East (region)?

What is the GNP per person? Show result is US$ (not million). Round the income to nearest dollar!

WRONG: 12345.6789

NOTE: GNP is database is measured in $1,000,000. Multiply your answer by 1,000,000 to get US$.

In what countries is Thai spoken?

SELECT ...

FROM Country C


ON C.code = L.countrycode

WHERE ...

How many people speak English?

2 queries: how many in each country total for world

SELECT ...

FROM Country C



WHERE ...

History of Empires through Language

Empires are cultures that spread over many countries.

We can detect past Empires by the spread of language.

What languages are spoken in greatest number of countries?

Can you name the Empire?

History of Empires through Language

We can detect past Empires by the spread of language.

What languages are spoken in greatest number of countries?

SELECT L.language,

sum(L.percentage*C.population) AS sum

FROM Country C



GROUP BY L.language

ORDER BY sum DESC

Where is Dari the Official Language?

In what country is Dari the official language?

4 official languages?

What country in Europe has 4 official languages?

SELECT ...

FROM Country C



WHERE ...

GROUP BY C.code -- group by country

HAVING ...

Resources

MySQL

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/

Learning SQL

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/ nice tutorial and command reference

Database Access using SQL A basic introduction James Brucker.

Documents

Transcript of Database Access using SQL A basic introduction James Brucker.