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Overview

The Introduction to SQL course is designed to give delegates practical experience in using ANSI standard SQL. As it is a generic course, some of the differences between different vendors' implementations will be noted. This course is designed to give users a grounding as the basis for moving onto more advanced skills.

Audience

This course is designed as an introduction to SQL and requires no prior knowledge of relational databases or SQL.

Skills Gained

In this course, you will:

  • Learn the basics of relational databases
  • Use SQL to retrieve data from the database
  • Run queries from the Azure portal and from Azure Data Studio


Outline

Introduction 

  • SQL 
  • Azure SQL Database

What is a Relational Database? 

  • Tables 
  • Primary keys 
  • Foreign keys 
  • Relationships between tables 
  • Type of relationships  
  • Data normalisation 

SQL Overview 

  • Type of SQL commands 

Working in Azure 

  • Running queries from the Azure portal

Basics of Queries 

  • SELECT 
  • SELECT DISTINCT 
  • SQL clauses 
  • Working in Azure Data Studio 
  • Selecting specific columns 
  • Aliases 
  • SQL syntax rules 

Filtering Data with a WHERE Clause 

  • SQL operators 
  • Comparison operators 
  • Logical operators 
  • Arithmetic operators 
  • Operator precedence 
  • WHERE clause 

Ordering Query Results 

  • ORDER BY clause 
  • Group Query Results 

GROUP BY clause 

  • Aggregation functions 
  • CASE statement 

Filtering on Aggregated Values 

  • HAVING clause 
  • Order of evaluation of clauses in a SELECT statement 

Access Data from Multiple Tables 

  • JOIN using WHERE clause 
  • Types of Joins 
  • Joining with date tables 

Combining multiple SELECT Results  

  • UNION operator 

Practice Exercises

  • Practice query writing


Certification

Each participant will leave with a recognised certificate of Attendance

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