Course Description
This course is designed to introduce students to Transact-SQL. The first part of the content can be taught as a course to students requiring the knowledge for other courses in the SQL Server curriculum. The remaining content focuses on the skills required to take exam 70-761.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server.
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Describe T-SQL, sets, and predicate logic.
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Write a single table SELECT statement.
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Write a multi-table SELECT statement.
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Write SELECT statements with filtering and sorting.
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Describe how SQL Server uses data types.
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Write DML statements.
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Write queries that use built-in functions.
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Write queries that aggregate data.
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Write subqueries.
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Create and implement views and table-valued functions.
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Use set operators to combine query results.
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Write queries that use window ranking, offset, and aggregate functions.
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Transform data by implementing pivot, unpivot, rollup and cube.
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Create and implement stored procedures.
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Add programming constructs such as variables, conditions, and loops to T-SQL code.
Course Features
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Instructor-led discussion.
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Hands-on labs.
Who Should Attend
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, this course will be beneficial for Database Administrators, Database Developers and BI professionals. Students should have a working knowledge of relational databases and a basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality to successfully complete this training.