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| Monday 05 March 2012 | London | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Save £39.50 | £355.50+VAT | |
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This 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.
There are no formal pre-requisites, although an understanding of databases and exposure to information technology in general would be useful.
- Anyone who needs to understand and use SQL to manipulate a database.
- To provide the knowledge and skills needed to retrieve and update data held in a relational database.
Course Contents - DAY 1
- Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: RELATIONAL DATABASE CONCEPTS
- What is a Relational Database?
- Tables, Rows and Columns
- Indexes, Primary Keys and Foreign Keys
- Data Types
- The Data Dictionary
- Getting Started
Session 2: SQL LANGUAGE ESSENTIALS
- The Select Statement
- The Select and From Clauses
- Conditions and the Where Clause
- The Order By Clause
- Arithmetic Operations
- Column Aliases
- Practical Exercises
Session 3: SUMMARISING AND GROUPING DATA
- Aggregate Functions
- The Group By Clause
- The Having Clause
- Practical Exercises
Session 4: QUERYING MULTIPLE TABLES
- Joining Tables
- Inner Joins
- Column Qualification and Table Aliases
- Outer Joins
- Self Joins
- Alternative Join Syntax
- Practical Exercises
Session 5:ADDITIONAL SQL FEATURES
- Combining Queries
- The Union, Intersect and Minus Operators
- Basic Subqueries
This 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.
StayAhead training has been offering high quality IT technical training courses since 1992. They specialise in UNIX, Oracle, Linux and MySQL training and pride themselves on the long term investments they put into attending delegates.
StayAhead has gained a reputation for offering high quality courses and is ranked as one of the UK’s top 50 business organisations in 2008.
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