SQL Server 2008

Course : Writing Queries Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL (2778)

Description

This 3-day instructor led course provides students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Audience

This course is intended for SQL Server database administrators, implementers, system engineers and developers who are responsible for writing queries.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

- Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language
- Use querying tool
- Write SELECT queries to retrieve data
- Group and summarize data by using Transact-SQL
- Join data from multiple tables
- Write queries that retrieve and modify data by using subqueries
- Modify data in tables
- Query text fields with full-text search
- Describe how to create programming objects
- Use various techniques when working with complex queries

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have:

- Knowledge of data integrity concepts
- Core Windows Server skills
- Relational database design skills
- Programming skills

Course outline

Module 1: Getting Started with Databases and Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2008
Module 2: Querying and Filtering Data
Module 3: Grouping and Summarizing Data
Module 4: Joining Data from Multiple Tables
Module 5: Working with Subqueries
Module 6: Modifying Data in Tables
Module 7: Querying Metadata, XML and Full-Text Indexes
Module 8: Using Programming Objects for Data Retrieval
Module 9: Using Advanced Querying Techniques