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SQL Data Wrangling in Oracle: Table Data

by Scott Hecht

This course describes Oracle functionality useful to the SQL-savvy data analyst, and features topics such as CROSS and OUTER APPLY, using the MODEL feature, using Nested Tables, computing occurrences, generating random numbers, and much, much more.

What you'll learn

This course describes Oracle functionality useful to the SQL-savvy data analyst, and features topics such as ordering your data with NULLs appearing first or last, using FETCH to subset your data, using SAMPLE to randomly sample from a table, using CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY, how to use the MODEL feature to access the rows and columns of a database table like a spreadsheet, generating random numbers, computing occurrences, using nested tables, and much, more.

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About the author

Scott is a statistical computer programmer specializing in SAS and SQL, but has learned many other languages such as Java, Android, C#, C, PL/SQL, R, and SPSS to name a few. His personal website, sheepsqueezers.com, features documents and presentations on a variety of topics he has learned over the years. Scott is also the author of "Android from A to D," which is his take on how a newbie should be taught Android programming, as well as "Poor Man's Data Dictionary," which describes how to quickl... more

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