Class Materials

• See syllabus in Canvas
• Slides
• Exercises
• Videos
• DATABASES
  - a home page for UG and Grad DB courses
• MySQL practice 
  • SQL Zoo
  • SQL Zoo (AdventureWorks)
  • Hacker Rank
  • SQL Bolt
  • W3 resource
  • W3 Resource (AdventureWorks)
  • AdventureWorks Basic SQL
  • AdventureWorks SQL Joins
  • AdventureWorks SQL Aggregation
  • AdventureWorks Subqueries
• Files
• Solutions

MySQL Manual

• MANUAL HOME
• MySQL WorkBench
• Regular Expressions

• String functions
• Numeric functions
• Date/Time functions
• Control Flow functions
• Spatial functions

• String data types
• Numeric data types
• Date/Time data types
• Spatial data types (tie in to GIS)

References

• Readings for class

Available Databases

• AdventureWorks - complex business DB from Microsoft (2005)
  • AdventureWorks 2005 Schema
    (Use [Ctrl +] to zoom in and [Ctrl -] to zoom out)
  • AdventureWorks Data Dictionary for field definition & usage
• Chinook - a music DB that is the sample for SQLite [schema]
• Sakila - the movie database that comes with MySQL
• NOAA - water data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Center in Influx [description]
• Northwind - simpler business DB from Microsoft (2010) [schema]
• Northwind on Neo4j - suppliers, products and categories [schema]
• Nwind - very basic version of Northwind (circa 2003) [schema]
• Murach - the databases from the Murach MySQL textbook
  • ap (accounts payable)
  • om (order management)
  • ex (examples)
  • note: ap and om have been merged into a database called "murach"; ex not recreated as it was repetitive with ap and om.
• SampDB - sample database from O'Reilly

Connectivity

• Connections to the elvis server must be through Rowan's network. For remote users, connect to Citrix (applications.rowan.edu) and then use PuTTy from there for command line access or use MySQL Workbench (under Developer folder).