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Chapter 3: Introduction to SQL
Omar ELOUTASSI Ecole d’Ingénieur BiomedTech

2023-2024
Université EUROMED
O. ELOUTASSI: [email protected]
(Structured query language)
Summary
 Overview of The SQL Query Language

 SQL Data Definition
 Basic Query Structure of SQL Queries
 Additional Basic Operations
 Set Operations
 Null Values
 Aggregate Functions
 Nested Subqueries
 Modification of the Database
O. ELOUTASSI: [email protected] 2
History 1/2
 IBM Sequel language developed as part of System R project at the IBM
San Jose Research Laboratory
 Renamed Structured Query Language (SQL)
 ANSI (American National Standards Institute) and ISO (International
Organization for Standardization) are the two SQL standard :
• SQL-86
• SQL-89
• SQL-92
• SQL:1999 (included some OLAP concepts, Boolean data types, role-
based access)
• SQL 2003 (included some XML features, windows functions, more
OLAP features, and other features)
History 2/2
 SQL 2006 (includes more features related to Storing XML, XQuery,
etc.)
 SQL 2008 (includes definitions for TRUNCATE statements, FETCH
Clauses, INSTEAD OF)
 SQL 2011 (includes revisions for temporal data, some additional
definitions for Windows Functions and also the FETCH clause
 SQL 2016 includes features related to JSON data(JavaScript Object
Notation), polymorphic table functions, and row pattern matching
 SQL 2019 is related to the multidimensional arrays
 MySQL is an open-source database product that implements SQL
SQL Parts
1. DDL
2. DML
3. Transaction control.
4. Embedded SQL and dynamic SQL.
5. Authorization
1. DDL: Data Definition Language
The SQL data-definition language (DDL) allows the specification

of information about relations, including:
 The schema for each relation.

 The type of values associated with each attribute.
 The Integrity constraints
 The set of indices to be maintained for each relation.
 Security and authorization information for each relation.
 The physical storage structure of each relation on disk.
SQL Parts
1. DDL -- includes commands:
 specifying integrity constraints
Unauthorized as
AGE is an integer
Table 1 attribute
 defining views View
Table 2
SQL Parts
2. DML -- provides the ability to query information from the database:
 insert tuples into
 delete tuples from
 modify tuples in the database
SQL Parts
3. Transaction control --includes commands specifying

 the beginning of transaction (open might be the beginning)
 The ending of transactions (save might be the end)
4. Embedded SQL and dynamic SQL -- define how SQL statements
can be embedded within general-purpose programming languages.
5. Authorization – includes commands for specifying access rights to
relations and views.
Domain Types in SQL

 char(n). Fixed length character string, with user-specified length n.
 varchar(n). Variable length character strings, with user-specified
maximum length n.
 int. Integer (a finite subset of the integers that is machine-dependent).
 smallint. Small integer (a machine-dependent subset of the integer
domain type).
 numeric(p,d). Fixed point number, with user-specified precision of p
digits, with d digits to the right of decimal point. (ex., numeric(4,2),
allows 32.70 to be stored exactly, but not 555.53 or 0.456)
 real, double precision. Floating point and double-precision floating
point numbers, with machine-dependent precision.
 float(n). Floating point number, with user-specified precision of at least
n digits.
Create Table Construct
 An SQL relation is defined using the create table command:
create table r (A1 D1, A2 D2, ..., An Dn, (integrity-
constraint1),..., (integrity-constraintk))
• r is the name of the relation
• each Ai is an attribute name in the schema of relation r
• Di is the data type of values in the domain of attribute Ai
 Example:
create table instructor (
ID char(5),
name varchar(20),
dept_name varchar(20),
salary numeric(8,2))
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Integrity Constraints in Created Table
 Types of integrity constraints
• primary key (A1, ..., An )
• foreign key (Am, ..., An ) references r
• not null
 SQL prevents any update to the database that violates an
integrity constraint.
 Example:
create table instructor (
ID char(5),
name varchar(20) not null,
dept_name varchar(20),
salary numeric(8,2),
primary key (ID),
foreign key (dept_name) references department);
Exercise
CREATE TABLE countries(
COUNTRY_ID varchar(2),
COUNTRY_NAME varchar(40),
REGION_ID decimal(10,0)
);
Updates to tables
 Insert
• insert into instructor values ('10211', 'Smith', 'Biology', 66000);
 Delete
• Remove all tuples from the student relation
 delete from student
 Drop Table
• drop table r
 Alter
• alter table r add A D
 where A is the name of the attribute to be added to relation r
and D is the domain of A.
 All exiting tuples in the relation are assigned null as the value
for the new attribute.
• alter table r drop A
 where A is the name of an attribute of relation r
 Dropping of attributes not supported by many databases. 14
Basic Query Structure

 A typical SQL query has the form:
select A1, A2, ..., An

from r1, r2, ..., rm
where P
• Ai represents an attribute
• ri represents a relation
• P is a predicate.
 The result of an SQL query is a relation.
The select Clause 1/4

 The select clause lists the attributes desired in the result of a query
• corresponds to the projection operation of the relational algebra
 Example: find the names of all instructors:
select name
from instructor
 NOTE: SQL names are case insensitive (i.e., you may use upper- or
lower-case letters.)
• E.g., Name ≡ NAME ≡ name
• Some people use upper case wherever we use bold font.
 SQL allows duplicates in relations as well as in query results.
 To force the elimination of duplicates, insert the keyword distinct
after select.
 Find the department names of all instructors, and remove duplicates
select distinct dept_name
from instructor
 The keyword all specifies that duplicates should not be removed.
select all dept_name

from instructor
 An asterisk in the select clause denotes “all attributes”
select *
from instructor
 An attribute can be a literal with no from clause
select „92000'
• Results is a table with one column and a single row with value
“92000”
• Can give the column a name using:
select „92000' as Very High
 An attribute can be a literal with from clause
select „Salary'
from instructor
• Result is a table with one column and N rows (number of tuples in the
instructors table), each row with value “A” 18

 The select clause can contain arithmetic expressions involving the
operation, +, –, , and /, and operating on constants or attributes of
tuples.
• The query:
select ID, name, salary/12
from instructor
would return a relation that is the same as the instructor relation,
except that the value of the attribute salary is divided by 12.
• Can rename “salary/12” using the as clause:
select ID, name, salary/12 as monthly_salary
The where Clause
 The where clause specifies conditions that the result must satisfy
• Corresponds to the selection predicate of the relational algebra.
 To find all instructors in Comp. Sci. dept
select name
from instructor
where dept_name = 'Comp. Sci.'
 SQL allows the use of the logical connectives and, or, and not
 The operands of the logical connectives can be expressions involving
the comparison operators <, <=, >, >=, =, and <>.
 Comparisons can be applied to results of arithmetic expressions
 To find all instructors in Comp. Sci. dept with salary > 70000
select name
from instructor
where dept_name = 'Comp. Sci.' and salary > 70000
The from Clause

 The from clause lists the relations involved in the query
• Corresponds to the Cartesian product operation of the relational
algebra.
 Find the Cartesian product instructor X teaches
select 
from instructor, teaches
• generates every possible instructor – teaches pair, with all attributes
from both relations.
• For common attributes (e.g., ID), the attributes in the resulting table
are renamed using the relation name (e.g., instructor.ID)
 Cartesian product not very useful directly, but useful combined with
where-clause condition (selection operation in relational algebra).
The from Clause

Examples
 Find the names of all instructors who have
taught some course and the course_id
• select name, course_id
from instructor , teaches
where instructor.ID = teaches.ID
 Find the names of all instructors in the Art

department who have taught some course
and the course_id
from instructor , teaches
where instructor.ID = teaches.ID
and instructor. dept_name = 'Art'
The Rename Operation
 The SQL allows renaming relations and attributes using the as

clause:
old-name as new-name
 Find the names of all instructors who have a higher salary than
some instructor in 'Comp. Sci'.
• select distinct T.name
from instructor as T, instructor as S
where T.salary > S.salary and S.dept_name = 'Comp. Sci.’
 Keyword as is optional and may be omitted

instructor as T ≡ instructor T
Self Join Example

 Relation emp-super
 Find the supervisor of “Bob”

 Find the supervisor of the supervisor of “Bob”
 Can you find ALL the supervisors (direct and indirect) of “Bob”?
String Operations 1/2

 SQL includes a string-matching operator for comparisons on
character strings. The operator like uses patterns that are
described using two special characters:
• percent ( % ). The % character matches any substring.
• underscore ( _ ). The _ character matches any character.
 Find the names of all instructors whose name includes the
substring “dar”.
select name
from instructor
where name like '%dar%'
 Match the string “100 %”
like '100\%' escape '\'
in that above we use backslash (\) as the escape character.
String Operations 2/2
 Patterns are case sensitive.
 Pattern matching examples:
• 'Intro%' matches any string beginning with “Intro”.
• '%Comp%' matches any string containing “Comp” as a
substring.
• '_ _ _' matches any string of exactly three characters.
• '_ _ _ %' matches any string of at least three characters.
 SQL supports a variety of string operations such as

• concatenation (using “||”)
• converting from upper to lower case (and vice versa)
• finding string length, extracting substrings, etc.
Ordering the Display of Tuples

 List in alphabetic order the names of all instructors
select distinct name
from instructor
order by name
 We may specify desc for descending order or asc for
ascending order, for each attribute; ascending order is the
default.
• Example: order by name desc
 Can sort on multiple attributes
• Example: order by dept_name, name
Where Clause Predicates
 SQL includes a between comparison operator
 Example: Find the names of all instructors with salary between
$90,000 and $100,000 (that is,  $90,000 and  $100,000)
• select name
from instructor
where salary between 90000 and 100000
 Tuple comparison
from instructor, teaches
where (instructor.ID, dept_name) = (teaches.ID, 'Biology');
Set Operations 1/2

 Find courses that ran in Fall 2017 or in Spring 2018
(select course_id from section where sem = 'Fall' and year = 2017)
union
(select course_id from section where sem = 'Spring' and year = 2018)
 Find courses that ran in Fall 2017 and in Spring 2018
intersect
 Find courses that ran in Fall 2017 but not in Spring 2018
except
Set Operations 2/2

 Set operations union, intersect, and except
• Each of the above operations automatically eliminates
duplicates
 To retain all duplicates use the
• union all,
• intersect all
• except all.
Null Values 1/2
 It is possible for tuples to have a null value, denoted by null, for some
of their attributes
 null signifies an unknown value or that a value does not exist.
 The result of any arithmetic expression involving null is null
• Example: 5 + null returns null
 The predicate is null can be used to check for null values.
• Example: Find all instructors whose salary is null.
select name
from instructor
where salary is null
 The predicate is not null succeeds if the value on which it is applied
is not null.
Null Values 2/2
 SQL treats as unknown the result of any comparison involving a null
value (other than predicates is null and is not null).
• Example: 5 < null or null <> null or null = null
 The predicate in a where clause can involve Boolean operations
(and, or, not); thus the definitions of the Boolean operations need to
be extended to deal with the value unknown.
• and : (true and unknown) = unknown,
(false and unknown) = false,
(unknown and unknown) = unknown
• or: (unknown or true) = true,
(unknown or false) = unknown
(unknown or unknown) = unknown
 Result of where clause predicate is treated as false if it evaluates to
unknown
Aggregate Functions
 These functions operate on the multiset of values of a column of

a relation, and return a value
o avg: average value
o min: minimum value
o max: maximum value
o sum: sum of values
o count: number of values
Aggregate Functions Examples

 Find the average salary of instructors in the Computer Science
department
• select avg (salary)
from instructor
where dept_name= 'Comp. Sci.';
 Find the total number of instructors who teach a course in the
Spring 2018 semester
• select count (distinct ID)
from teaches
where semester = 'Spring' and year = 2018;
 Find the number of tuples in the course relation
• select count (*)
from course;
Aggregate Functions – Group By
 Find the average salary of instructors in each department
• select dept_name, avg (salary) as avg_salary
from instructor
group by dept_name;
Aggregation
 Attributes in select clause outside of aggregate functions must

appear in group by list
• /* erroneous query */
select dept_name, ID, avg (salary)
from instructor
group by dept_name;
Aggregate Functions – Having Clause

 Find the names and average salaries of all departments whose average
salary is greater than 42000
select dept_name, avg (salary) as avg_salary
from instructor
group by dept_name
having avg (salary) > 42000;
 Note: predicates in the having clause are applied after the formation of
groups whereas predicates in the where clause are applied before
forming groups
Nested Subqueries
 SQL provides a mechanism for the nesting of subqueries. A subquery is
a select-from-where expression that is nested within another query.
 The nesting can be done in the following SQL query
select A1, A2, ..., An

from r1, r2, ..., rm
where P
as follows:
• From clause: ri can be replaced by any valid subquery
• Where clause: P can be replaced with an expression of the form:
B <operation> (subquery)
B is an attribute and <operation> to be defined later.
• Select clause:
Ai can be replaced be a subquery that generates a single value.
Set Membership 1/2

 Find courses offered in Fall 2017 and in Spring 2018
select distinct course_id
from section
where semester = 'Fall' and year= 2017 and
course_id in (select course_id
from section
where semester = 'Spring' and year= 2018);
 Find courses offered in Fall 2017 but not in Spring 2018

select distinct course_id
from section
where semester = 'Fall' and year= 2017 and
course_id not in (select course_id
from section
where semester = 'Spring' and year= 2018);
Set Membership 2/2

 Name all instructors whose name is neither “Mozart” nor Einstein”
select distinct name
from instructor
where name not in ('Mozart', 'Einstein')
 Find the total number of (distinct) students who have taken course
sections taught by the instructor with ID 10101
select count (distinct ID)
from takes
where (course_id, sec_id, semester, year) in
(select course_id, sec_id, semester, year
from teaches
where teaches.ID= 10101);
 Note: Above query can be written in a much simpler manner.

The formulation above is simply to illustrate SQL features
Set Comparison – “some” Clause
 Find names of instructors with salary greater than that of

some (at least one) instructor in the Biology department.
select distinct T.name
from instructor as T, instructor as S
where T.salary > S.salary and S.dept name =
'Biology';
 Same query using > some clause
select name
from instructor
where salary > some (select salary
from instructor
where dept name = 'Biology');
Definition of “some” Clause

 F <comp> some r   t  r such that (F <comp> t )
Where <comp> can be:     
0
(5 < some 5 ) = true since 5 < some tuple in the relation
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0
(5 < some 5 ) = false since 5 = some tuple in the relation
0
(5 = some 5 ) = true since 5 = some tuple in the relation
0
(0  some 5 ) = true (since 0  5
(= some)  in
( some)  not in
Set Comparison – “all” Clause
 Find the names of all instructors whose salary is greater than the
salary of all instructors in the Biology department.
select name
from instructor
where salary > all (select salary
from instructor
where dept name = 'Biology');
Definition of “all” Clause
 F <comp> all r   t  r (F <comp> t)
0
(5 < all 5 ) = false
6
6
(5 < all 10 ) = true
4
(5 = all 5 ) = false
4
(5  all 6 ) = true (since 5  4 and 5  6)
( all)  not in
However, (= all)  in
Test for Empty Relations
 The exists construct returns the value true if the argument

subquery is nonempty.
 exists r  r  Ø
 not exists r  r = Ø
Use of “exists” Clause
 Yet another way of specifying the query “Find all courses taught
in both the Fall 2017 semester and in the Spring 2018 semester”
select course_id
from section as S
where semester = 'Fall' and year = 2017 and
exists (select *
from section as T
where semester = 'Spring' and year= 2018
and S.course_id = T.course_id);
 Correlation name – variable S in the outer query

 Correlated subquery – the inner query
Use of “not exists” Clause
 Find all students who have taken all courses offered in the Biology
department.
select distinct S.ID, S.name

from student as S
where not exists ( (select course_id
from course
where dept_name = 'Biology')
except
(select T.course_id
from takes as T
where S.ID = T.ID));
• First nested query lists all courses offered in Biology

• Second nested query lists all courses a particular student took
 Note that X – Y = Ø  X  Y
 Note: Cannot write this query using = all and its variants
Test for Absence of Duplicate Tuples
 The unique construct tests whether a subquery has any duplicate

tuples in its result.
 The unique construct evaluates to “true” if a given subquery
contains no duplicates .
 Find all courses that were offered at most once in 2017
select T.course_id
from course as T
where unique ( select R.course_id
from section as R
where T.course_id= R.course_id
and R.year = 2017);
Subqueries in the Form Clause
 SQL allows a subquery expression to be used in the from clause
 Find the average instructors‟ salaries of those departments where the average
salary is greater than $42,000.”
select dept_name, avg_salary
from ( select dept_name, avg (salary) as avg_salary
from instructor
group by dept_name)
where avg_salary > 42000;
 Note that we do not need to use the having clause
 Another way to write above query
select dept_name, avg_salary
from ( select dept_name, avg (salary)
from instructor
group by dept_name)
as dept_avg (dept_name, avg_salary)
where avg_salary > 42000;
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With Clause
 The with clause provides a way of defining a temporary relation

whose definition is available only to the query in which the with
clause occurs.
 Find all departments with the maximum budget
with max_budget (value) as
(select max(budget)
from department)
select department.name
from department, max_budget
where department.budget = max_budget.value;
Complex Queries using With Clause
 Find all departments where the total salary is greater than the
average of the total salary at all departments
with dept _total (dept_name, value) as
(select dept_name, sum(salary)
from instructor
group by dept_name),
dept_total_avg(value) as
(select avg(value)
from dept_total)
select dept_name
from dept_total, dept_total_avg
where dept_total.value > dept_total_avg.value;
Scalar Subquery
 Scalar subquery is one which is used where a single value is

expected
 List all departments along with the number of instructors in each
department
select dept_name,
( select count(*)
from instructor
where department.dept_name = instructor.dept_name)
as num_instructors
from department;
 Runtime error if subquery returns more than one result tuple
Modification of the Database
 Deletion of tuples from a given relation.

 Insertion of new tuples into a given relation
 Updating of values in some tuples in a given relation
Deletion 1/2
 Delete all instructors
delete from instructor
 Delete all instructors from the Finance department

where dept_name= 'Finance‟;
 Delete all tuples in the instructor relation for those instructors

associated with a department located in the Watson building.
where dept name in (select dept name
from department
where building = 'Watson');
Deletion 2/2
 Delete all instructors whose salary is less than the average salary of
instructors
where salary < (select avg (salary)
from instructor);
• Problem: as we delete tuples from instructor, the average salary

changes
• Solution used in SQL:
1. First, compute avg (salary) and find all tuples to delete
2. Next, delete all tuples found above (without recomputing avg or
retesting the tuples)
Insertion 1/2
 Add a new tuple to course
insert into course
values ('CS-437', 'Database Systems', 'Comp. Sci.', 4);
 or equivalently
insert into course (course_id, title, dept_name, credits)

values ('CS-437', 'Database Systems', 'Comp. Sci.', 4);
 Add a new tuple to student with tot_creds set to null

insert into student
values ('3003', 'Green', 'Finance', null);
Insertion 2/2
 Make each student in the Music department who has earned
more than 144 credit hours an instructor in the Music
department with a salary of $18,000.
insert into instructor
select ID, name, dept_name, 18000
from student
where dept_name = 'Music' and total_cred > 144;
 The select from where statement is evaluated fully before any

of its results are inserted into the relation.
Otherwise queries like
insert into table1 select * from table1
would cause problem
Updates 1/2
 Give a 5% salary raise to all instructors
update instructor
set salary = salary * 1.05
 Give a 5% salary raise to those instructors who earn less than 70000
update instructor
where salary < 70000;
 Give a 5% salary raise to instructors whose salary is less than average
update instructor
where salary < (select avg (salary)
from instructor);
Updates 1/2
 Increase salaries of instructors whose salary is over $100,000
by 3%, and all others by a 5%
• Write two update statements:
update instructor
where salary > 100000;
update instructor
where salary <= 100000;
• The order is important
• Can be done better using the case statement (next slide)
Case Statement for Conditional Updates
 Same query as before but with case statement

update instructor
set salary = case
when salary <= 100000 then salary * 1.05
else salary * 1.03
end
Updates with Scalar Subqueries
 Recompute and update tot_creds value for all students
update student S
set tot_cred = (select sum(credits)
from takes, course
where takes.course_id = course.course_id and
S.ID= takes.ID.and
takes.grade <> 'F' and
takes.grade is not null);
 Sets tot_creds to null for students who have not taken any course
 Instead of sum(credits), use:
case
when sum(credits) is not null then sum(credits)
else 0
end
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Chapter 3: Introduction to SQL

Omar ELOUTASSI Ecole d’Ingénieur BiomedTech

 Overview of The SQL Query Language

4. Embedded SQL and dynamic SQL.

1. DDL: Data Definition Language

The SQL data-definition language (DDL) allows the specification

 The schema for each relation.

 delete tuples from

 modify tuples in the database

3. Transaction control --includes commands specifying

Domain Types in SQL

Basic Query Structure

select A1, A2, ..., An

The select Clause 1/4

select all dept_name

The select Clause 4/4

The from Clause

The from Clause

 Find the names of all instructors in the Art

The Rename Operation

 The SQL allows renaming relations and attributes using the as

 Keyword as is optional and may be omitted

Self Join Example

 Find the supervisor of “Bob”

String Operations 1/2

 SQL supports a variety of string operations such as

Ordering the Display of Tuples

Set Operations 1/2

Set Operations 2/2

Null Values 1/2

 These functions operate on the multiset of values of a column of

Aggregate Functions Examples

 Attributes in select clause outside of aggregate functions must

Aggregate Functions – Having Clause

select A1, A2, ..., An

Set Membership 1/2

 Find courses offered in Fall 2017 but not in Spring 2018

Set Membership 2/2

 Note: Above query can be written in a much simpler manner.

 Find names of instructors with salary greater than that of

Definition of “some” Clause

Set Comparison – “all” Clause

Test for Empty Relations

 The exists construct returns the value true if the argument

 Correlation name – variable S in the outer query

select distinct S.ID, S.name

• First nested query lists all courses offered in Biology

 The unique construct tests whether a subquery has any duplicate

 The with clause provides a way of defining a temporary relation

 Scalar subquery is one which is used where a single value is

 Deletion of tuples from a given relation.

 Delete all instructors from the Finance department

 Delete all tuples in the instructor relation for those instructors

• Problem: as we delete tuples from instructor, the average salary

insert into course (course_id, title, dept_name, credits)

 Add a new tuple to student with tot_creds set to null

 The select from where statement is evaluated fully before any

Case Statement for Conditional Updates

 Same query as before but with case statement

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