Ardito Computer Training

Course Description

The goal of this course is to provide students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server™. This course is intended for SQL Server database administrators, implementers, system engineers, and developers who are responsible for writing queries.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

1. Open an existing database and define database objects.
2. Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language.
3. Use querying tools.
4. Write SELECT queries to retrieve data.
5. Group and summarise data by using Transact-SQL.
6. Join data from multiple tables.
7. Write queries that retrieve and modify data by using subqueries.
8. Modify data in tables.
9. Query text fields with full-text search.
10. Describe how to create programming objects.
11. Use various techniques when working with complex queries.

Course Outline

1. Getting Started with Databases and Transact-SQL
2. Querying and Filtering Data
3. Grouping and Summarising Data
4. Joining Data from Multiple Tables
5. Working with Subqueries
6. Modifying Data in Tables
7. Querying Metadata, XML, and Full-Text Indexes
8. Using Programming Objects for Data Retrieval
9. Using Advanced Querying Techniques