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Course Duration: 5 Days

About This Course

This course is designed to introduce students to Transact-SQL. It is designed in such a way that the first three days can be taught as a course to students requiring the knowledge for other courses in the SQL Server curriculum. Days 4 & 5 teach the remaining skills required to take exam 70-761.

Audience Profile

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, the primary target audience for this course is: Database Administrators, Database Developers and BI professionals.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server 2016.
  • Describe T-SQL, sets, and predicate logic.
  • Write a single table SELECT statement.
  • Write a multi-table SELECT statement.
  • Write SELECT statements with filtering and sorting.
  • Describe how SQL Server uses data types.
  • Write DML statements.
  • Write queries that use built-in functions.
  • Write queries that aggregate data.
  • Write subqueries
  • Create and implement views and table-valued functions.
  • Use set operators to combine query results.
  • Write queries that use window ranking, offset, and aggregate functions.
  • Transform data by implementing pivot, unpivot, rollup and cube.
  • Create and implement stored procedures.
  • Add programming constructs such as variables, conditions, and loops to T-SQL code.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.

Working knowledge of relational databases

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2016

Module 2: Introduction to T-SQL Querying

Module 3: Writing SELECT Queries

Module 4: Querying Multiple Tables

Module 5: Sorting and Filtering Data

Module 6: Working with SQL Server 2016 Data Types

Module 7: Using DML to Modify Data

Module 8: Using Built-In Functions

Module 9: Grouping and Aggregating Data

Module 10: Using Subqueries

Module 11: Using Table Expressions

Module 12: Using Set Operators

Module 13: Using Windows Ranking, Offset, and Aggregate Functions

Module 14: Pivoting and Grouping Sets

Module 15: Executing Stored Procedures

Module 16: Programming with T-SQL

Module 17: Implementing Error Handling

Module 18: Implementing Transactions

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