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Description: Duration:
Instructor-led Classroom Learning - 3.00 Day(s)
Overview:
This course provides students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Who Should Attend:
This course is intended for SQL Server database administrators, implementers, system engineers, and developers who are responsible for writing queries.
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to: - Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language. - Use querying tool. - Write SELECT queries to retrieve data. - Group and summarize data by using Transact-SQL. - Join data from multiple tables. - Write queries that retrieve and modify data by using subqueries. - Modify data in tables. - Query text fields with full-text search. - Describe how to create programming objects. - Use various techniques when working with complex queries.
Prerequisite Comments:
Relational database design skills, Programming skills. Knowledge of data integrity concepts and core Windows Server skills.
Outline:
Lesson 1: Getting Started with Databases and Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2008
Overview of SQL Server 2008
Overview of SQL Server Databases
Overview and Syntax Elements of T-SQL
Working with T-SQL Scripts
Using T-SQL Querying Tools
Lesson 2: Querying and Filtering Data
Using the SELECT Statement
Filtering Data
Working with NULL Values
Formatting Result Sets
Performance Considerations for Writing Queries
Lesson 3: Grouping and Summarizing Data
Summarizing Data by Using Aggregate Functions
Summarizing Grouped Data
Ranking Grouped Data
Creating Crosstab Queries
Lesson 4: Joining Data from Multiple Tables
Querying Multiple Tables by Using Joins
Applying Joins for Typical Reporting Needs
Combining and Limiting Result Set
Lesson 5: Working with Subqueries
Writing Basic Subqueries
Writing Correlated Subqueries
Comparing Subqueries with Joins and Temporary Tables
Using Common Table Expressions
Lesson 6: Modifying Data in Tables
Inserting Data into Tables
Deleting Data from Tables
Updating Data in Tables
Overview of Transactions
Lesson 7: Querying Metadata, XML, and Full-Text Indexes
Querying Metadata
Overview of XML
Querying XML Data
Overview of Full-Text Indexes
Querying Full-Text Indexes
Lesson 8: Using Programming Objects for Data Retrieval
Overview of Views
Overview of User-Defined Functions
Overview of Stored Procedures
Overview of Triggers
Writing Distributed Queries
Lesson 9: Using Advanced Querying Techniques
Considerations for Querying Data
Working with Data Types
Cursors and Set-Based Queries
Dynamic SQL
Maintaining Query Files
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