Querying Data with Transact – SQL

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course is designed to introduce students to Transact-SQL. It is designed in such a way that the first three days can be taught as a course to students requiring the knowledge for other courses in the SQL Server curriculum. 

Days 4 and 5 teach the remaining skills required to take exam 70-761.

IDEAL FOR

The main purpose of the course is to give students a good understanding of the Transact-SQL language which is used by all SQL Server-related disciplines; namely, Database Administration, Database Development and Business Intelligence. As such, the primary target audience for this course is: Database Administrators, Database Developers and BI professionals.

OBJECTIVES

• After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server 2016.

• Describe T-SQL, sets, and predicate logic.

• Write a single table SELECT statement.

• Write a multi-table SELECT statement.

• Write SELECT statements with filtering and sorting.

• Describe how SQL Server uses data types.

• Write DML statements.

• Write queries that use built-in functions.

• Write queries that aggregate data.

• Write subqueries.

• Create and implement views and table-valued functions.

• Use set operators to combine query results.

• Write queries that use window ranking, offset, and aggregate functions.

• Transform data by implementing pivot, unpivot, rollup and cube.

• Create and implement stored procedures.

• Add programming constructs such as variables, conditions, and loops to T-SQL code.

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE

Students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:

• Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.

• Working knowledge of relational databases.