SQL Surge

The sql-surge repository aims to provide a good reference to students, teachers and database enthusiasts who would like to prepare, review, and get fantastic challenges in SQL and RDBMS.

Most of the examples and challenges are written to comply with PostgreSQL, however, you could try this on any of the RDBMS that support SQL syntaxes.

Note: Sometimes, small modification might be needed to run with different SQL servers. For example MySQL do not support SERIAL columns, so we need to change it to INTEGER AUTOINCREMENT column type.

The reference basically contains the following resources:

1. Notes: This section provides introduction to specific topics.
2. Examples: This section provides some examples to get started with SQL.
3. Challenges: This section provides you challenges to get prepared.
4. Projects: This section will show you some real-world projects for starting projects.

Setting up project

Installing vscode and recommended extensions

Install your favorite code editor. This repository suggests you to use vscode, which you can install from https://code.visualstudio.com/.

After installing vscode, you can install extensions suggested by the project settings which is defined inside the file .vscode/extensions.json.

Setting up SQL server

If you prefer using a SQLserver of your choice, then you may install it otherwise, a docker compose file is provided to you to install PostgreSQL server. To do that, first install docker if it is not already installed in your system. After installing docker, you can easily run docker compose up command to start your postgresql server.

# to run all the services defined inside the `docker-compose.yml` file
docker compose up

# to run the those services in background, (daemonize)
docker compose up -d

# to run specific service in background, eg: postgres
docker compose up -d postgres

Setting up initial Seed

Introduction and examples sometime needs some common database tables, which is defined inside common/ directory.

Please run SQL scripts tagged with up and seed tags so that you would be able to test those scripts. For example common/star-wars/001-up.sql.

If your database becomes corrupt, or you want to start over, you can run down scripts. For example common/star-wars/000-down.sql.

Table of contents

Note: This repository is constantly evolving and might not have every topics listed out below.

Please check examples section for examples directly for those sections that do not have notes yet.

1. Introduction to Database management System

   • 1.1. Database Management System
   • 1.2. Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
   • 1.3. Features of RDBMS

2. Basic Data Types

   • 2.1. Numeric data types
   • 2.2. Boolean data type
   • 2.3. Character types
   • 2.4. Date/time types
   • 2.5. UUID type
   • 2.6. Array

3. The SQL Language

   • 3.1. Database CRUD Operations
   • 3.2. TABLE CRUD Operations
   • 3.3. Populating a table with rows
   • 3.4. Querying a table
   • 3.5. Foreign Keys
   • 3.6. Joins Between Tables
   • 3.7. Transactions
   • 3.8. Aggregation

4. PostgreSQL Introduction

   • 4.1 PostgreSQL installation
   • 4.2 The psql command line application
   • 4.3 Database CRUD operations with psql
   • 4.4 User CRUD operations with psql
   • 4.5 Granting permissions to different users with psql