Read this book for free at sqlrun.com . Perfect for end users, analysts, data scientists, students, and developers, this best-selling guide will get you up and running with SQL, the language of databases. You'll find general concepts, practical answers, and clear explanations of what the various SQL statements can do. Hundreds of examples of varied difficulty encourage you to experiment and explore. Formatted SQL code listings help you see the elements and structure of the language. You can download the sample database to follow along with the author's examples. Contents Introduction 1. Running SQL Programs 2. The Relational Model 3. SQL Basics 4. Retrieving Data from a Table 5. Operators and Functions 6. Summarizing and Grouping Data 7. Joins 8. Subqueries 9. Set Operations 10. Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Rows 11. Creating, Altering, and Dropping Tables 12. Indexes 13. Views 14. Transactions 15. Advanced SQL About the Author Chris Fehily is a statistician and author based in San Francisco.