Using group by on multiple columns

Group By X means put all those with the same value for X in the one group. Group By X, Y means put all those with the same values for both X and Y in the one group. To illustrate using an example, let’s say we have the following table, to do with who is attending what subject at … Read more

Difference between View and table in sql

A table contains data, a view is just a SELECT statement which has been saved in the database (more or less, depending on your database). The advantage of a view is that it can join data from several tables thus creating a new view of it. Say you have a database with salaries and you need to … Read more

What is a relation in database terminology?

Amazingly, “relation” in “relational” databases does not refer to the foreign key relationship of one table to another. “A relation is a data structure which consists of a heading and an unordered set of tuples which share the same type,” according to Wikipedia on ‘Relation (database)’. In SQL RDBMSes (such as MS SQL Server and Oracle] tables are … Read more