# Introduction

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**What This Book is About**

This book will cover the basics of SQL, and should help introduce beginners to SQL concepts. It is also a good documentation source when forgetting how the basic SQL syntax works.

**Contributing**

This book is open source, so please feel free to visit [the github repository](https://github.com/hgducharme/SQL-Basics) to help contribute! If you notice any typos or errors in this book, you can clone the repo and open a pull request with the new and improved changes, or simply just open a new issue. Any contribution is greatly appreciated and it will help make this book better for those reading it after you!

**License**

This book is currently licensed under a Creative Commons license. For more information, read more on [the official Creative Commons website](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

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**Here is the example database that will be used throughout the book:**

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**Movies**

| mID | Title         | Year | Director        |
| --- | ------------- | ---- | --------------- |
| 101 | Top Gun       | 1986 | Tony Scott      |
| 102 | Titanic       | 1997 | James Cameron   |
| 103 | The Lion King | 1994 | Rob Minkoff     |
| 104 | Gravity       | 2013 | Alfonso Cuaron  |
| 105 | Harry Potter  | 2001 | `<null>`        |
| 106 | Cast Away     | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 107 | Spider Man    | 2002 | Sam Raimi       |
| 108 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Coppola |

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**User**

| uID | Name             |
| --- | ---------------- |
| 201 | James Dean       |
| 202 | Chris Anderson   |
| 203 | Ashley Burley    |
| 204 | Ralph Truman     |
| 205 | Gordon Maximus   |
| 206 | Sarah Rodgriguez |
| 207 | Darrel Sherman   |
| 208 | Lisa Jackson     |

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**Review**

| uID | mID | Rating | ratingDate |
| --- | --- | ------ | ---------- |
| 201 | 101 | 2      | 2014-03-09 |
| 201 | 101 | 4      | 2014-03-02 |
| 202 | 104 | 4      | `<null>`   |
| 203 | 107 | 2      | 2014-03-24 |
| 204 | 103 | 4      | 2014-03-17 |
| 204 | 104 | 2      | 2014-03-13 |
| 205 | 108 | 3      | 2014-03-24 |
| 206 | 102 | 3      | 2014-03-02 |
| 207 | 104 | 5      | `<null>`   |
| 207 | 106 | 4      | 2014-03-07 |
| 207 | 102 | 5      | 2014-03-26 |
| 208 | 105 | 2      | 2014-03-13 |


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