55366 Querying Data with Transact-SQL
E-Learning
Description
This five-day instructor-led course is intended for IT professionals who wish to use the Transact-SQL language to query and configure Microsoft SQL Server. Students are typically database developers and database administrators, but might also be Business Intelligence developers, report creators, or application developers. In this course, students learn how to query single tables, join data from multiple tables, filter and sort data, modify data, use procedures and functions, and implement error handling.
This five-day instructor-led course is intended for IT professionals who wish to use the Transact-SQL language to query and configure Microsoft SQL Server. Students are typically database developers and database administrators, but might also be Business Intelligence developers, report creators, or application developers. In this course, students learn how to query single tables, join data from multiple tables, filter and sort data, modify data, use procedures and functions, and implement error handling.
At Course Completion
Create single table SELECT queries
Create multiple table SELECT queries
Filter and sort data
Insert, update, and delete data
Query data using built-in functions
Create queries that aggregate data
Create subqueries
Create queries that use table expressions
Use UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT on multiple sets of data
Implement window functions in queries
Use PIVOT and GROUPING SETS in queries
Use stored procedures in queries
Add error handling to queries
Use transactions in queries
This course is intended for novice database developers, database administrators, Business Intelligence developers, report creators, and application developers who have an understanding of relational database concepts and have basic Windows navigation skills.
| Lesson Id | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Module 1: Introduction to Transact-SQL |
What is Transact-SQL The SELECT statement The WHERE clause Sorting results Calculations CASE expressions |
| 2 | Module 2: Joining tables with Transact-SQL |
The JOIN clause Inner joins Outer joins Self joins and cross joins |
| 3 | Module 3: Filtering and sorting results |
Implement the ORDER BY clause Filter data with the WHERE clause Limit the number of rows returned by a query Implement NULL logic |
| 4 | Module 4: SQL Server data types |
Understand data types? Implement string data types Implement temporal data types |
| 5 | Module 5: Inserting, updating and deleting data |
Insert new records Update existing records Delete data |
| 6 | Module 6: Using SQL Server functions with Transact-SQL |
Understand function types in SQL Server Convert data using functions Implement logical functions Work with NULL data using functions |
| 7 | Module 7: Aggregating data with Transact-SQL |
Implement aggregation in SQL Server Group records in SQL Server Filter aggregated data |
| 8 | Module 8: Implement subqueries with Transact-SQL |
Implement scalar and multi-valued sub-queries Implement correlated subqueries Implement existence checks with subqueries |
| 9 | Module 9: Create queries that use table expressions |
Create views Create table-valued functions Implement derived tables Implement common table expressions |
| 10 | Module 10: Use UNION, INTERSECT, EXCEPT and APPLY on multiple sets of data |
Write queries with the UNION operator Write queries with the INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators Write queries with the APPLY operator |
| 11 | Module 11: Implement window functions in queries |
Understand window functions Impement window functions |
| 12 | Module 12: Use PIVOT and grouping sets in queries |
Implement PIVOT in queries Implement grouping sets in queries |
| 13 | Module 13: Use stored procedures in queries |
Query data with stored procedures Interact with stored procedures using input and output parameters Write simple stored procedures Pass dynamic SQL to SQL Server |
| 14 | Module 14: Implement programming features in Transact-SQL |
Understand T-SQL programming elements Implement loops and conditions in T-SQL queries |
| 15 | Module 15: Add error handling to queries |
Understand SQL Server error handling Implement structured exception handling |
| 16 | Module 16: Use transactions in queries |
Understand database transactions Implement transactions in T-SQL |
Self-Paced
Free
This course includes: :
Full lifetime access