Course Length: 2-days
Course Overview
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, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Microsoft Fabric.
Target Student
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.
Course Outline
Introduction to Transact-SQL
- Introduction to Transact-SQL
- Using the SELECT statement
Sort and filter results in T-SQL
- Sorting query results
- Filtering the data
Combine multiple tables with JOINs in T-SQL
- Using JOIN operations
- Using subqueries
Write Subqueries in T-SQL
- Use scalar or multi-valued subqueries
- Use self-contained or correlated subqueries
Use built-in functions and GROUP BY in Transact-SQL
- Getting started with scalar functions
- Grouping aggregated results
Modify data with T-SQL
- Inserting data into tables
- Modifying and deleting data
