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Relational Databases and Query Languages
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Tables on the Web?
• Lots of them!• Go to a random sports-related Wikipedia page..• Each table may be small
– Especially if manually created• However integrating of all tables on the web results
in a huge database– See Google BigTables project
• Much of the data has questionable credibility– Integration also leads to uncertainty
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Relational model
• A declarative method for specifying data and queries
• Data is represented as a set of tables
• A schema is used to specify the types of tables and their connections
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Data
1. Atomic types, a.k.a. data types2. Tables built from atomic types
Unlike XML, no nested tables, only flat tables are allowed!
– We will see later how to decompose complex structures into multiple flat tables
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Data Types• Characters:
– CHAR(20) -- fixed length– VARCHAR(40) -- variable length
• Numbers:– BIGINT, INT, SMALLINT, TINYINT– REAL, FLOAT -- differ in precision– MONEY
• Times and dates: – DATE– DATETIME -- SQL Server
• Others... All are simple
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Tables
PName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
Product
Attribute namesTable name
Tuples or rows
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Tables Explained
• A tuple = a record– Restriction: all attributes are of atomic type
• A table = a set of tuples– Like a list…– …but it is unordered: no first(), no next(), no last().
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Tables Explained
• The schema of a table is the table name and its attributes:
Product(PName, Price, Category, Manfacturer)
• A key is an attribute whose values are unique;we underline a key
Product(PName, Price, Category, Manfacturer)
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SQL Query
Basic form: (plus many many more bells and whistles)
SELECT attributes FROM relations (possibly multiple) WHERE conditions (selections)
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Simple SQL QueryPName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
SELECT *FROM ProductWHERE category=‘Gadgets’
Product
PName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks“selection”
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Simple SQL QueryPName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
SELECT PName, Price, ManufacturerFROM ProductWHERE Price > 100
Product
PName Price Manufacturer
SingleTouch $149.99 Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Hitachi
“selection” and“projection”
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A Notation for SQL Queries
SELECT PName, Price, ManufacturerFROM ProductWHERE Price > 100
Product(PName, Price, Category, Manfacturer)
Answer(PName, Price, Manfacturer)
Input Schema
Output Schema
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Selections
What goes in the WHERE clause:• x = y, x < y, x <= y, etc
– For number, they have the usual meanings– For CHAR and VARCHAR: lexicographic ordering
• Expected conversion between CHAR and VARCHAR
– For dates and times, what you expect...• Pattern matching on strings...
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The LIKE operator
• s LIKE p: pattern matching on strings• p may contain two special symbols:
– % = any sequence of characters– _ = any single character
Product(PName, Price, Category, Manufacturer)Find all products whose name mentions ‘gizmo’:
SELECT *FROM ProductsWHERE PName LIKE ‘%gizmo%’
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Eliminating Duplicates
SELECT DISTINCT categoryFROM Product
Compare to:
SELECT categoryFROM Product
Category
Gadgets
Gadgets
Photography
Household
Category
Gadgets
Photography
Household
What happens if moreattributes are selected?
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Ordering the Results
SELECT pname, price, manufacturerFROM ProductWHERE category=‘gizmo’ AND price > 50ORDER BY price, pname
Ordering is ascending, unless you specify the DESC keyword.
Ties are broken by the second attribute on the ORDER BY list, etc.
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Ordering the Results
SELECT categoryFROM ProductORDER BY pname
PName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
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Ordering the Results
SELECT DISTINCT categoryFROM ProductORDER BY category
Compare to:
Category
Gadgets
Household
Photography
SELECT categoryFROM ProductORDER BY pname ?
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Joins in SQL
• Connect two or more tables:PName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
Product
Company Cname StockPrice Country
GizmoWorks 25 USA
Canon 65 Japan
Hitachi 15 Japan
What isthe connection
betweenthem ?
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Joins
Product (pname, price, category, manufacturer)Company (cname, stockPrice, country)
Find all products under $200 manufactured in Japan;return their names and prices.
SELECT pname, priceFROM Product, CompanyWHERE manufacturer=cname AND country=‘Japan’ AND price <= 200
Joinbetween Product
and Company
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Joins in SQL
PName Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
Product Company
Cname StockPrice Country
GizmoWorks 25 USA
Canon 65 Japan
Hitachi 15 Japan
PName Price
SingleTouch $149.99
SELECT pname, priceFROM Product, CompanyWHERE manufacturer=cname AND country=‘Japan’ AND price <= 200
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Joins
Product (pname, price, category, manufacturer)Company (cname, stockPrice, country)
Find all countries that manufacture some product in the ‘Gadgets’ category.
SELECT countryFROM Product, CompanyWHERE manufacturer=cname AND category=‘Gadgets’
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Joins in SQL
Name Price Category Manufacturer
Gizmo $19.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
Powergizmo $29.99 Gadgets GizmoWorks
SingleTouch $149.99 Photography Canon
MultiTouch $203.99 Household Hitachi
Product Company
Cname StockPrice Country
GizmoWorks 25 USA
Canon 65 Japan
Hitachi 15 Japan
SELECT countryFROM Product, CompanyWHERE manufacturer=cname AND category=‘Gadgets’
Country
??
??
What isthe problem ?
What’s thesolution ?
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Joins
Product (pname, price, category, manufacturer)Purchase (buyer, seller, store, product)Person(persname, phoneNumber, city)
Find names of people living in Seattle that bought some product in the ‘Gadgets’ category, and the names of the stores they bought such product from
SELECT DISTINCT persname, storeFROM Person, Purchase, ProductWHERE persname=buyer AND product = pname AND city=‘Seattle’ AND category=‘Gadgets’
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When are two tables related?
• Foreign keys are a method for schema designers to tell you so (7.1)– A foreign key states that a column is a reference to the
key of another tableex: Product.manufacturer is foreign key of Company
– Gives information and enforces constraint
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Disambiguating Attributes
• Sometimes two relations have the same attr:Person(pname, address, worksfor)Company(cname, address)
SELECT DISTINCT pname, addressFROM Person, CompanyWHERE worksfor = cname
SELECT DISTINCT Person.pname, Company.addressFROM Person, CompanyWHERE Person.worksfor = Company.cname
Whichaddress ?
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Tuple Variables
SELECT DISTINCT x.storeFROM Purchase AS x, Purchase AS yWHERE x.product = y.product AND y.store = ‘BestBuy’
Find all stores that sold at least one product that the store‘BestBuy’ also sold:
Answer (store)
Product (pname, price, category, manufacturer)Purchase (buyer, seller, store, product)Person(persname, phoneNumber, city)
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Tuple VariablesGeneral rule: tuple variables introduced automatically by the system: Product (name, price, category, manufacturer)
Becomes:
Doesn’t work when Product occurs more than once:In that case the user needs to define variables explicitly.
SELECT name FROM Product WHERE price > 100
SELECT Product.name FROM Product AS Product WHERE Product.price > 100
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Meaning (Semantics) of SQL Queries
SELECT a1, a2, …, akFROM R1 AS x1, R2 AS x2, …, Rn AS xnWHERE Conditions
1. Nested loops:Answer = {}for x1 in R1 do for x2 in R2 do ….. for xn in Rn do if Conditions then Answer = Answer {(a1,…,ak)}return Answer
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Meaning (Semantics) of SQL Queries
SELECT a1, a2, …, akFROM R1 AS x1, R2 AS x2, …, Rn AS xnWHERE Conditions
2. Parallel assignment
Doesn’t impose any order !
Answer = {}for all assignments x1 in R1, …, xn in Rn do if Conditions then Answer = Answer {(a1,…,ak)}return Answer
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Exercises Product (pname, price, category, manufacturer)Purchase (buyer, seller, store, product)Company (cname, stock price, country)Person(per-name, phone number, city)
Ex #1: Find people who bought telephony products.Ex #2: Find names of people who bought American productsEx #3: Find names of people who bought American products and they live in Seattle.Ex #4: Find people who have both bought and sold something.Ex #5: Find people who bought stuff from Joe or bought products from a company whose stock prices is more than $50.
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Solution#1SELECT DISTINCT PU.buyerFROM Purchase PU, Product PRWHERE PU.product = PR.pname AND
PR.category = 'telephony‘#2SELECT DISTINCT PU.buyerFROM Purchase PU, Product PR, Company CWHERE PU.product = PR.pname AND
PR.manufactur = C.cname ANDC.country = 'America‘
#3SELECT DISTINCT PU.buyerFROM Purchase PU, Product PR, Company C, Person PWHERE PU.product = PR.pname AND
PR.manufactur = C.cname ANDC.country = 'America' ANDPU.buyer = P.per-name ANDP.city = 'Seattle' 32
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Solution#4SELECT DISTINCT buyerFROM PurchaseWHERE buyer IN (SELECT seller FROM Purchase)
#5SELECT DISTINCT PU.buyerFROM Purchase PU, Product PR, Company CWHERE PU.product = PR.pname AND
PR.manufactur = C.cname AND(PU.seller = 'Joe' OR C.stockprice > 50)
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