Comments on: The Top Nine Most Important SQL Keywords; What they mean and how to use them

encoding="UTF-8"?> Comments on: The Top Nine Most Important SQL Keywords; What they mean and how to use them http://blog.terabell.com/89/programming/the-top-nine-most-important-sql-keywords-what-they-mean-and-how-to-use-them/ Writings from a Brisbane Programmer, Future Lawyer, Keen Historian and avid web surfer Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:48:15 0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Andrew Bell http://blog.terabell.com/89/programming/the-top-nine-most-important-sql-keywords-what-they-mean-and-how-to-use-them/#comment-303 Andrew Bell Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:30:26 0000 http://blog.terabell.com/89/programming/the-top-nine-most-important-sql-keywords-what-they-mean-and-how-to-use-them/#comment-303 Dave, I agree, those are very common also CREATE USER is another that is used very commonly as are backup statements. As someone who has done both DBA roles and building queries (programmer) there is a big difference between what you consider important depending on what you do. Generally I would consider the most important thing about databases is to be able to access the data and as such I wrote this post with that in mind. I think I will write the top administrative keywords and how to use them for those who are more concerned with the operation of the database, rather than accessing what it contains. Dave,

I agree, those are very common also CREATE USER is another that is used very commonly as are backup statements. As someone who has done both DBA roles and building queries (programmer) there is a big difference between what you consider important depending on what you do. Generally I would consider the most important thing about databases is to be able to access the data and as such I wrote this post with that in mind. I think I will write the top administrative keywords and how to use them for those who are more concerned with the operation of the database, rather than accessing what it contains.

]]> By: Dave http://blog.terabell.com/89/programming/the-top-nine-most-important-sql-keywords-what-they-mean-and-how-to-use-them/#comment-302 Dave Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:25:21 0000 http://blog.terabell.com/89/programming/the-top-nine-most-important-sql-keywords-what-they-mean-and-how-to-use-them/#comment-302 As a Sysadmin, the most frequent SQL command I use is GRANT although it is not strictly pure SQL. This is closely followed by CHECK SLAVE STATUS and not-so-closely followed by CREATE DATABASE, CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE. Of course, when I'm programming the nine you mention are the ones I use. The thing is, my job would be a lot harder without the commands I mentioned. (Well... except CREATE DATABASE. It's pretty easy to create a new database manually.) As a Sysadmin, the most frequent SQL command I use is GRANT although it is not strictly pure SQL. This is closely followed by CHECK SLAVE STATUS and not-so-closely followed by CREATE DATABASE, CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE.

Of course, when I’m programming the nine you mention are the ones I use.

The thing is, my job would be a lot harder without the commands I mentioned. (Well… except CREATE DATABASE. It’s pretty easy to create a new database manually.)

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