Overview
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 & 5 teach the remaining skills required to take exam 70-761.
Audience
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.
Prerequisites:
- Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
- Working knowledge of relational databases.
Objective
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server.
- 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.
Curriculum
Curriculum
- 20 Sections
- 70 Lessons
- 40 Hours
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- Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL ServerThis module introduces SQL Server, the versions of SQL Server, including cloud versions, and how to connect to SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio.3
- Module 1 Lab : Working with SQL Server Tools3
- Module 2: Introduction to T-SQL QueryingThis module describes the elements of T-SQL and their role in writing queries. Describe the use of sets in SQL Server. Describe the use of predicate logic in SQL Server. Describe the logical order of operations in SELECT statements.4
- Module 2 Lab : Introduction to T-SQL Querying3
- Module 3: Writing SELECT QueriesThis module introduces the fundamentals of the SELECT statement, focusing on queries against a single table.4
- Module 3 Lab : Writing Basic SELECT Statements4
- Module 4: Querying Multiple TablesThis module describes how to write queries that combine data from multiple sources in Microsoft SQL Server.4
- Module 4 Lab : Querying Multiple Tables5
- Module 5: Sorting and Filtering DataThis module describes how to implement sorting and filtering.4
- Module 5 Lab : Sorting and Filtering Data4
- Module 6: Working with SQL Server Data TypesThis module introduces the data types SQL Server uses to store data.3
- Module 6 Lab : Working with SQL Server Data Types4
- Module 7: Using DML to Modify DataThis module describes how to create DML queries, and why you would want to.3
- Module 7 Lab : Using DML to Modify Data2
- Module 8: Using Built-In Functions4
- Module 8 Lab : Using Built-In Functions3
- Module 9: Grouping and Aggregating DataThis module describes how to use aggregate functions.3
- Module 9 Lab : Grouping and Aggregating Data4
- Module 10: Using SubqueriesThis module describes several types of subquery and how and when to use them.3
- Module 10 Lab : Using Subqueries3
