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.
Objectives
Course Objectives
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
Target audience
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.
Module 1: Introduction to Transact-SQL
What is Transact-SQL
The SELECT statement
The WHERE clause
Sorting results
Calculations
CASE expressions
Module 2: Joining tables with Transact-SQL
The JOIN clause
Inner joins
Outer joins
Self joins and cross joins
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
Module 4: SQL Server data types
Understand data types
Implement string data types
Implement temporal data types
Module 5: Inserting, updating and deleting data
Insert new records
Update existing records
Delete data
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
Module 7: Aggregating data with Transact-SQL
Implement aggregation in SQL Server
Group records in SQL Server
Filter aggregated data
Module 8: Implement subqueries with Transact-SQL
Implement scalar and multi-valued sub-queries
Implement correlated subqueries
Implement existence checks with subqueries
Module 9: Create queries that use table expressions
Create views
Create table-valued functions
Implement derived tables
Implement common table expressions
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
Module 11: Implement window functions in queries
Understand window functions
Impement window functions
Module 12: Use PIVOT and grouping sets in queries
Implement PIVOT in queries
Implement grouping sets in queries
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
Module 14: Implement programming features in Transact-SQL