Querying Data with Microsoft Transact-SQL
This course will teach the basics of Microsoft’s dialect of the standard SQL language: Transact-SQL. Topics include both querying and modifying data in relational databases that are hosted in Microsoft SQL Server-based database systems, including: Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and, Azure Synapse Analytics.
Dla kogo?
This course can be valuable for anyone who needs to write basic SQL or Transact-SQL queries. This includes anyone working with data as a data analyst, a data engineer, a data scientist, a database administrator or a database developer. It can also be useful for others peripherally involved with data, or wanting to learn more about working with data such as solution architects, students and technology managers.
Zdobyte umiejętności
- Use SQL Server query tools
- Write SELECT statements to retrieve columns from one or more tables
- Sort and filter selected data
- Use built-in functions to returned data values
- Create groups of data and aggregate the results
- Modify data with Transact-SQL using INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and MERGE
Zakres szkolenia
Module 1: Getting Started with Transact-SQL
- Introduction to Transact-SQL
- Using the SELECT statement
- Lab: Get started with SQL Server query tools and writing queries in T-SQL
Module 2: Sorting and Filtering Query Results
- Sorting query results
- Filtering the data
- Lab: Sort and filter data returned by SELECT queries
Module 3: Using Joins and Subqueries
- Using JOIN operations
- Using subqueries
- Lab: Write queries with JOIN operations
- Lab: Write SELECT statements using subqueries
Module 4: Using Built-in Functions
- Getting started with scalar functions
- Grouping aggregated results
- Lab: Built-in functions
Module 5: Modifying Data
- Inserting data into tables
- Modifying and deleting data
- Lab: Modify data