55366 Querying Data with Transact-SQL

Course Overview

This five-day instructor-led course is intended for IT professionals who wish to use the Transact-SQL language to query and configure Microsoft SQL Server. Students are typically database developers and database administrators, but might also be Business Intelligence developers, report creators, or application developers. In this course, students learn how to query single tables, join data from multiple tables, filter and sort data, modify data, use procedures and functions, and implement error handling.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for novice database developers, database administrators, Business Intelligence developers, report creators, and application developers who have an understanding of relational database concepts and have basic Windows navigation skills.

Course Objectives

Create single table SELECT queries
Create multiple table SELECT queries
Filter and sort data
Insert, update, and delete data
Query data using built-in functions
Create queries that aggregate data
Create subqueries
Create queries that use table expressions
Use UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT on multiple sets of data
Implement window functions in queries
Use PIVOT and GROUPING SETS in queries
Use stored procedures in queries
Add error handling to queries
Use transactions in queries

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Transact-SQL

What is Transact-SQL
The SELECT statement
The WHERE clause
Sorting results
Calculations
CASE expressions

Module 2: Joining tables with Transact-SQL

The JOIN clause
Inner joins
Outer joins
Self joins and cross joins

Module 3: Filtering and sorting results

Implement the ORDER BY clause
Filter data with the WHERE clause
Limit the number of rows returned by a query
Implement NULL logic

Module 4: SQL Server data types

Understand data types
Implement string data types
Implement temporal data types

Module 5: Inserting, updating and deleting data

Insert new records
Update existing records
Delete data

Module 6: Using SQL Server functions with Transact-SQL

Understand function types in SQL Server
Convert data using functions
Implement logical functions
Work with NULL data using functions

Module 7: Aggregating data with Transact-SQL

Implement aggregation in SQL Server
Group records in SQL Server
Filter aggregated data

Module 8: Implement subqueries with Transact-SQL

Implement scalar and multi-valued sub-queries
Implement correlated subqueries
Implement existence checks with subqueries

Module 9: Create queries that use table expressions

Create views
Create table-valued functions
Implement derived tables
Implement common table expressions

Module 10: Use UNION, INTERSECT, EXCEPT and APPLY on multiple sets of data

Write queries with the UNION operator
Write queries with the INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators
Write queries with the APPLY operator

Module 11: Implement window functions in queries

Understand window functions
Impement window functions

Module 12: Use PIVOT and grouping sets in queries

Implement PIVOT in queries
Implement grouping sets in queries

Module 13: Use stored procedures in queries

Query data with stored procedures
Interact with stored procedures using input and output parameters
Write simple stored procedures
Pass dynamic SQL to SQL Server

Module 14: Implement programming features in Transact-SQL

Understand T-SQL programming elements
Implement loops and conditions in T-SQL queries

Module 15: Add error handling to queries

Understand SQL Server error handling
Implemet structured exception handling

Module 16: Use transactions in queries

Understand database transactions
Implement transactions in T-SQL

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Mountain time

This is a 5-day class

Price: $2,995.00

Register for Class

Register	When	Time	Where	How
Register	03/10/2025	7:00AM - 3:00PM	Online	VILT
Register	06/02/2025	7:00AM - 3:00PM	Online	VILT