Knowing SQL can help you improve your skills as a developer.
SQL is incredibly powerful, and like every well-made development tool, it has a few commands which it’s vital for a good developer to know. Here is a list of SQL queries that are really important for coding & optimization. Each of the queries in our SQL tutorial is consequential to almost every system that interacts with an SQL database.
TOP-50 MOST IMPORTANT SQL QUERIES ARE :-
1. Retrieving Tables 2. Selecting Columns from a Table 3. Outputting Data – Constraint 4. Outputting Data – ‘Order By’ 5. Outputting Data – ‘Group By’ 6. Data Manipulation – COUNT 7. Data Manipulation Using SUM 8. Data Manipulation Using AVG 9. SQL Query for Listing all Views 10. Creating a View 11. Retrieving a View 12. Updating a View 13. Dropping a View 14. Display User Tables 15. Display Primary Keys 16. Displaying Unique Keys 17. Displaying Foreign Keys 18. Displaying Triggers 19. Displaying Internal Tables 20. Displaying a List of Procedures 21. Swapping the Values 22. Returning a Column of Values 23. SELECT TOP Clause 24. Searching for SQL Tables 25. Between Monday and Tuesday 26. Find Intersection of 2 Tables 27. UNION 28. Friendly Column Labels 29. Always and Everywhere! 30. Developer-Friendly SQL 31. Database Management 32. Adding Tables to Our New DB 33. Modifying and Deleting Tables 34. Successful Indexing 35. Improving Performance 36. Conditional Subquery Results 37. Copying Selections 38. Catching NULL Results 39. HAVING can be Relieving! 40. Tie things up with Strings! 41. Use COALESCE 42. Use Convert 43. DENSE_RANK()Analytical 44. Query_partition_clause 45. Last five records from the table 46. LAG 47. LEAD 48. PERCENT_RANK 49. MIN 50. MAX
This is a wonderful book on getting started with the SQL programming language. The breakdown of the book into sections that allow the reader to come back and refer to sections as they grow in their skillset or need a refresher shows a great deal.