55366 Querying Data with Transact-SQL

Introduction:

How many bad business decisions could be avoided if your data was accurate, timely, and easy to query? Nearly 82% of organizations admit to basing decisions on out-of-date data, leading to costly mistakes. The Querying Data with Transact-SQL training course builds the skills you need to work confidently with Microsoft SQL Server.

Through hands-on, instructor-led training, you’ll learn to query single and multiple tables, filter and sort results, join related data, use built-in functions, and work with stored procedures and transactions. You’ll also master subqueries, table expressions, aggregations, and error handling, ensuring you can retrieve and manage data accurately, securely, and efficiently.

Objectives:

Create single table SELECT queries
Create multiple table SELECT queries
Filter and sort data
Insert, update, and delete data
Query data using built-in functions
Create queries that aggregate data
Create subqueries
Create queries that use table expressions
Use UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT on multiple sets of data
Implement window functions in queries
Use PIVOT and GROUPING SETS in queries
Use stored procedures in queries
Add error handling to queries
Use transactions in queries

Course Outline:

Module 1: Introduction to Transact-SQL

  • What is Transact-SQL
  • The SELECT statement
  • The WHERE clause
  • Sorting results
  • Calculations and CASE expressions

Module 2: Joining Tables

  • The JOIN clause
  • Inner, outer, self, and cross joins

Module 3: Filtering and Sorting Results

  • ORDER BY clause
  • WHERE clause filtering
  • Limiting rows returned
  • NULL handling

Module 4: SQL Server Data Types

  • String and temporal data types
  • Data type usage best practices

Module 5: Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Data

  • Insert new records
  • Update existing data
  • Delete data safely

Module 6: Using SQL Server Functions

  • Function types in SQL Server
  • Data conversion functions
  • Logical functions
  • Handling NULLs

Module 7: Aggregating Data

  • Aggregation methods
  • GROUP BY and HAVING clauses
  • Filtering aggregated results

Module 8: Subqueries

  • Scalar, multi-valued, and correlated subqueries
  • Using EXISTS with subqueries

Module 9: Table Expressions

  • Views
  • Table-valued functions
  • Derived tables
  • Common table expressions (CTEs)

Module 10: Combining Data Sets

  • UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT
  • APPLY operator

Module 11: Window Functions

  • Understanding and implementing window functions

Module 12: PIVOT and Grouping Sets

  • Data pivoting
  • Grouping sets for advanced aggregations

Module 13: Stored Procedures

  • Executing stored procedures
  • Input/output parameters
  • Creating simple procedures
  • Using dynamic SQL

Module 14: Programming Features in T-SQL

  • Loops and conditions

Module 15: Error Handling

  • SQL Server error handling methods
  • Structured exception handling

Module 16: Transactions

  • Transaction concepts
  • Implementing transactions in T-SQL

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