Introduction to SQL Training

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Course Length: 2 days

Delivery Methods:

Next Live Class:Apr 19-20, 2021 10AM-5PM ET

Course Topics

Understand how relational databases work.
Learn to use SQL to output reports.
Learn to write SQL queries to retrieve data from multiple tables.

Available Delivery Methods

Public Class
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .

Private Class
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.

Self-Paced
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access to an On-Demand course.

Course Overview

This SQL training course is designed for students new to writing SQL queries. A typical student will need to learn SQL to build applications or to generate business reports. For the most part, the SQL learned in the course is applicable to all major databases. In the few cases in which there are differences between the databases, these differences will be pointed out.

Course Outline

Relational Database Basics
1. Brief History of SQL
2. Relational Databases
3. Tables
  1. Rows
  2. Columns
  3. Relationships
  4. Datatypes
  5. Primary Keys
  6. Foreign Keys
  7. Relational Database Management System
4. Popular Databases
  1. Commercial Databases
  2. Popular Open Source Databases
5. SQL Statements
  1. Database Manipulation Language (DML)
  2. Database Definition Language (DDL)
  3. Database Control Language (DCL)
Simple SELECTs
1. Introduction to the Northwind Database
2. Some Basics
  1. Comments
  2. Whitespace and Semi-colons
  3. Case Sensitivity
3. SELECTing All Columns in All Rows
4. Exercise: Exploring the Tables
5. SELECTing Specific Columns
6. Exercise: SELECTing Specific Columns
7. Sorting Records
  1. Sorting by a Single Column
  2. Sorting By Multiple Columns
8. Ascending and Descending Sorts
9. Exercise: Sorting Results
10. The WHERE Clause and Logical Operator Symbols
  1. Checking for Equality
  2. Checking for Inequality
11. Exercise: Using the WHERE Clause to Check for Equality or Inequality
12. Checking for Greater or Less Than
13. Exercise: Using the WHERE Clause to Check for Greater or Less Than
14. Checking for NULL
15. Exercise: Checking for NULL
16. WHERE and ORDER BY
17. Exercise: Using WHERE and ORDER BY Together
18. Checking Multiple Conditions with Boolean Operators
  1. AND
  2. OR
  3. Order of Evaluation
19. Exercise: Writing SELECTs with Multiple Conditions
20. The WHERE Clause and Logical Operator Keywords
  1. The BETWEEN Operator
  2. The IN Operator
  3. The LIKE Operator
  4. The NOT Operator
21. Exercise: More SELECTs with WHERE
Advanced SELECTs
1. Calculated Fields
  1. Concatenation
  2. Mathematical Calculations
  3. Aliases
2. Exercise: Calculating Fields
3. Aggregate Functions and Grouping
  1. Aggregate Functions
  2. Grouping Data
4. Exercise: Working with Aggregate Functions
5. Selecting Distinct Records
6. Built-in Data Manipulation Functions
  1. Common Math Functions
  2. Common String Functions
  3. Common Date Functions
7. Exercise: Data Manipulation Functions
Subqueries, Joins and Unions
1. Subqueries
2. Exercise: Subqueries
3. Joins
  1. Table Aliases
  2. Multi-table Joins
4. Exercise: Using Joins
5. Outer Joins
6. Unions
  1. UNION ALL
  2. UNION Rules
7. Exercise: Working with Unions
Conditional Processing with CASE
1. Using CASE
2. Exercise: Working with CASE

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

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