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Before you start
This tutorial series teaches basic to advanced SQL and XQuery topics. Developers and database administrators can use this tutorial to enhance their database query skills. Academic Initiative members can use this tutorial series as a part of their database curriculum.
This tutorial series shows how to express commonly asked business questions as database queries by using SQL queries or XQueries.
All the examples in this document are based on Aroma, a sample database that contains sales data for coffee and tea products sold in stores across the United States. Each example consists of three parts:
- A business question, expressed in everyday language
- One or more example queries, expressed in SQL or XQuery
- A table of results returned from the database
This guide is designed to allow participants to learn the SQL language and XQuery. With any learning, it is important to supplement it with hands-on exercises. This is facilitated by the table definitions and data.
For students using this as part of an academic class, obtain from your instructor the instructions to connect to the Aroma database and learn about any differences between the guide and your local set up.
Thank you for choosing IBM® DB2® to learn about hybrid data servers serving data from both pure relational and pureXML structures.
This tutorial was written for DB2 Express-C 9 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®.
The previous parts of this series have all focused on the SELECT statement. This tutorial introduces the other SQL components and statements, including:
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CREATE TABLE -
INSERT -
UPDATE -
DELETE -
ALTER TABLE -
CREATE VIEW -
CREATE INDEX -
DROP TABLE -
GRANT -
REVOKE
You need to connect to a database before you can use SQL statements to query or manipulate data. The CONNECT statement associates a database
connection with a user name.
For this series, the database name is aromadb. (If you are a student using this as part of an academic class, find out from your instructor the database name that you need to be connected to.)
To connect to the aromadb database, type the following command in the DB2 command line processor:
CONNECT TO aromadb USER userid USING password |
For students using this as part of an academic class, replace userid and password with the userid and password you received from your instructor. If no userid and password are required, simply use the following command:
CONNECT TO aromadb |
The following message tells you that you have made a successful connection:
Database Connection Information Database server = DB2/NT 9.0.0 SQL authorization ID = USERID Local database alias = AROMADB |
Once you are connected, you can start using the database.
