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 and Microsoft Fabric.

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Audience Profile

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.

At Course Completion

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

Outline

Introduction to Transact-SQL

  • Work with schemas
  • Explore the structure of SQL statements
  • Examine the SELECT statement
  • Work with data types
  • Handle NULLs
  • Module assessment

Sort and filter results in T-SQL

  • Sort your results
  • Limit the sorted results
  • Page results
  • Remove duplicates
  • Filter data with predicates
  • Module assessment

Combine multiple tables with JOINs in T-SQL

  • Understand joins concepts and syntax
  • Use inner joins
  • Use outer joins
  • Use cross joins
  • Use self joins
  • Module assessment

Write Subqueries in T-SQL

  • Understand subqueries
  • Use scalar or multi-valued subqueries
  • Use self-contained or correlated subqueries
  • Module assessment

Use built-in functions and GROUP BY in Transact-SQL

  • Categorize built-in functions
  • Use scalar functions
  • Use ranking and rowset functions
  • Use aggregate functions
  • Summarize data with GROUP BY
  • Filter groups with HAVING
  • Module assessment

Modify data with T-SQL

  • Insert data
  • Generate automatic values
  • Update data
  • Delete data
  • Merge data based on multiple tables
  • Module assessment


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