100 SQL Commands

"Mastering SQL: 100 Essential Commands Every Database Developer Should Know"

Sure, here are 100 SQL commands:

1. SELECT - Retrieve data from a database.
2. INSERT - Insert new data into a database.
3. UPDATE - Update existing data in a database.
4. DELETE - Delete data from a database.
5. CREATE DATABASE - Create a new database.
6. CREATE TABLE - Create a new table in a database.
7. ALTER TABLE - Modify an existing table structure.
8. DROP TABLE - Delete a table from a database.
9. TRUNCATE TABLE - Remove all records from a table.
10. CREATE INDEX - Create an index on a table.
11. DROP INDEX - Remove an index from a table.
12. JOIN - Combine rows from two or more tables based on a related column.
13. INNER JOIN - Return rows when there is at least one match in both tables.
14. LEFT JOIN - Return all rows from the left table, and the matched rows from the right table.
15. RIGHT JOIN - Return all rows from the right table and the matched rows from the left table.
16. FULL OUTER JOIN - Return all rows when there is a match in one of the tables.
17. UNION - Combine the results of two or more SELECT statements.
18. UNION ALL - Combine the results of two or more SELECT statements, including duplicates.
19. GROUP BY - Group rows that have the same values into summary rows.
20. HAVING - Filter records based on a group condition.
21. ORDER BY - Sort the result set in ascending or descending order.
22. DISTINCT - Return only distinct (different) values.
23. COUNT - Count the number of records in a result set.
24. SUM - Calculate the sum of a set of values.
25. AVG - Calculate the average value of a set of values.
26. MIN - Find the minimum value in a set of values.
27. MAX - Find the maximum value in a set of values.
28. BETWEEN - Select values within a range.
29. LIKE - Select values matching a pattern.
30. IN - Specify multiple values in a WHERE clause.
31. NOT IN - Specify values not in a list.
32. EXISTS - Test for the existence of rows in a subquery.
33. NOT EXISTS - Test for the non-existence of rows in a subquery.
34. CASE - Perform conditional logic in a query.
35. WHEN - Define conditions in a CASE statement.
36. THEN - Specify the result when a condition is true in a CASE statement.
37. ELSE - Specify the result when no conditions are true in a CASE statement.
38. END - End a CASE statement.
39. CAST - Convert a value from one data type to another.
40. CONVERT - Convert a value from one data type to another.
41. IS NULL - Test for null values.
42. IS NOT NULL - Test for non-null values.
43. COALESCE - Return the first non-null value in a list.
44. NULLIF - Return null if two expressions are equal, otherwise return the first expression.
45. TOP - Select the top N records from a result set.
46. LIMIT - Limit the number of rows returned in a result set.
47. OFFSET - Skip a specified number of rows in a result set.
48. FETCH - Retrieve a specific number of rows from a result set.
49. ROW_NUMBER() - Assign a unique sequential integer to each row in a result set.
50. RANK() - Assign a rank to each row in a result set.
51. DENSE_RANK() - Assign a dense rank to each row in a result set.
52. NTILE() - Divide a result set into a specified number of equally sized groups.
53. ROWS - Specify a window frame for analytic functions.
54. PARTITION BY - Divide the result set into partitions for analytic functions.
55. OVER - Specify the window for analytic functions.
56. FIRST_VALUE() - Return the first value in a sorted partition of a result set.
57. LAST_VALUE() - Return the last value in a sorted partition of a result set.
58. LEAD() - Access data from a subsequent row in a result set.
59. LAG() - Access data from a preceding row in a result set.
60. CROSS APPLY - Apply a table-valued function to each row returned by a query.
61. OUTER APPLY - Apply a table-valued function to each row returned by a query, including rows with no match.
62. PIVOT - Rotate rows into columns based on the values in a specified column.
63. UNPIVOT - Rotate columns into rows based on the values in a specified column.
64. INDEX HINT - Specify an index to be used by the query optimizer.
65. TRANSACTION - Start a transaction.
66. COMMIT - Save the changes made in a transaction.
67. ROLLBACK - Undo the changes made in a transaction.
68. SAVEPOINT - Set a point within a transaction to which you can later roll back.
69. DECLARE - Declare a variable.
70. SET - Assign a value to a variable.
71. DECLARE CURSOR - Declare a cursor for iterative processing of a result set.
72. OPEN - Open a cursor.
73. FETCH - Retrieve the next row from a cursor.
74. CLOSE - Close a cursor.
75. DEALLOCATE - Deallocate the memory associated with a cursor.
76. CREATE VIEW - Create a virtual table based on the result of a SELECT statement.
77. DROP VIEW - Delete a view from a database.
78. GRANT - Grant permissions to a user or role.
79. REVOKE - Revoke permissions from a user or role.
80. CREATE USER - Create a new database user.
81. DROP USER - Delete a database user.
82. CREATE ROLE - Create a new role in a database.
83. DROP ROLE - Delete a role from a database.
84. BEGIN - Start a transaction block.
85. END - End a transaction block.
86. IF - Execute a set of SQL statements conditionally.
87. ELSE - Specify an alternative set of SQL statements to execute.
88. WHILE - Execute a set of SQL statements repeatedly while a condition is true.
89. BREAK - Exit from a WHILE loop.
90. CONTINUE - Skip the remaining statements in a loop iteration and start the next iteration.
91. GOTO - Jump to a specified label within a batch or stored procedure.
92. EXECUTE - Execute a stored procedure or dynamic SQL statement.
93. CREATE PROCEDURE - Create a stored procedure.
94. ALTER PROCEDURE - Modify an existing stored procedure.
95. DROP PROCEDURE - Delete a stored procedure.
96. CREATE FUNCTION - Create a user-defined function.
97. ALTER FUNCTION - Modify an existing user-defined function.
98. DROP FUNCTION - Delete a user-defined function.
99. CREATE TRIGGER - Create a trigger that automatically executes in response to certain events.
100. DROP TRIGGER - Delete a trigger from a database.

These commands cover a wide range of functionalities and operations that can be performed in SQL.