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- Learn on Mobile/PC/Tablet
- Quizzes and Real Projects
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What you'll learn?
- At the completion of the course, you will know how to install SQL Server and create a practice environment for yourself.
- You will be familiarized with some of the core concepts of RDBMS / SQL Server.
- You will learn the ins and outs of SQL Server Management studio.
- You will start constructing your SELECT statement to retrieve data from SQL Server.
- You will know how to filter out unwanted data by using WHERE clause as well as, you would know how to order your result set by using ORDER BY clause.
- You will also know about some of the string functions, date functions, and system functions.
- You will see how to get data out of multiple tables using JOIN ( INNER / LEFT OUTER / RIGHT OUTER / FULL OUTER / CROSS JOINS).
- You will also see how to use UNION / UNION ALL operators and as to how they differ from JOINS.
- You will see how to group and summarize your data by using , GROUP BY clause, HAVING clause and Aggregate functions.
Course Overview
What you'll learn
At the completion of the course, you will know how to install SQL Server and create a practice environment for yourself.
- You will be familiarized with some of the core concepts of RDBMS / SQL Server.
- You will learn the ins and outs of SQL Server Management studio.
- You will start constructing your SELECT statement to retrieve data from SQL Server.
- You will know how to filter out unwanted data by using WHERE clause as well as, you would know how to order your result set by using ORDER BY clause.
- You will also know about some of the string functions, date functions, and system functions.
- You will see how to get data out of multiple tables using JOIN ( INNER / LEFT OUTER / RIGHT OUTER / FULL OUTER / CROSS JOINS).
- You will also see how to use UNION / UNION ALL operators and as to how they differ from JOINS.
- You will see how to group and summarize your data by using , GROUP BY clause, HAVING clause and Aggregate functions.
Pre-requisites
- NO PRIOR DATABASE OR SQL experience is required.
- You need High speed Internet connection with a PC.
Target Audience
- Anyone who is just starting out on their database career.
- Information workers who work with database.
- Healthcare professionals who need to understand the working of database in order to make sure that their PHI data remains HIPAA compliant.
- Finance professionals who need to understand how their data is stored in database and as to how SQL Server provides a better data storing mechanism in strict regulatory environments, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Dodd-Frank, Basel II etc.
- Anyone looking for their first stepping stone to start working on their Microsoft Certification 70-461
- Quality Analyst people who need to understand the workings of a database while they do their software testing.
- Managers who need to understand as to how their data is handled by the database while they try to adopt agile development methodology.
- Business Professional
- Accountants
- Software Developers
- Programming Students
- Financial Analysts
Curriculum 44 Lectures 03:47:42
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Section 1 : Course and Instructor Introduction
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Section 2 : Laying out the foundation - Overview & Installation
- Lecture 1 :
- Pre-requisites & Different Editions of SQL Server
- Lecture 2 :
- Learn SQL Server : New location for Adventure Works Database download
- Lecture 3 :
- Downloading Express Edition & sample database
- Lecture 4 :
- Installing the downloads & Configuration
- Lecture 5 :
- The sa Login
- Lecture 6 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 3 : Core concepts - Taming the RDBMS beast !
- Lecture 1 :
- What is RDBMS ?
- Lecture 2 :
- Where does SQL Server fit in ?
- Lecture 3 :
- Basic database objects
- Lecture 4 :
- Different Files that got installed - MDF & LDF
- Lecture 5 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 4 : Tool of the trade - SQL Server Management Studio
- Lecture 1 :
- Getting started with SSMS
- Lecture 2 :
- Getting around Object Explorer
- Lecture 3 :
- Query Window
- Lecture 4 :
- Pre built DB - system database
- Lecture 5 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 5 : Simple SELECT
- Lecture 1 :
- Bare Minimum : SELECTING a literal
- Lecture 2 :
- Retrieving / Querying data from a table - using FROM clause
- Lecture 3 :
- Playing with Column Names
- Lecture 4 :
- Rearranging columns to your liking
- Lecture 5 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 6 : Filtering out unwanted data
- Lecture 1 :
- Narrowing down and ordering result set - WHERE and ORDER clause
- Lecture 2 :
- Narrowing down result set - BETWEEN / NOT BETWEEN
- Lecture 3 :
- Narrowing down result set - IN and NOT IN operator
- Lecture 4 :
- Narrowing down result set - Pattern Matching : LIKE and Wildcards
- Lecture 5 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 7 : Expressions and Functions
- Lecture 1 :
- Dealing with nothing : NULL
- Lecture 2 :
- Working with strings : Concatenation and other string functions
- Lecture 3 :
- Working with dates : Date Functions
- Lecture 4 :
- Some System Functions
- Lecture 5 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 8 : Getting data out of multiple tables
- Lecture 1 :
- Joining multiple tables - INNER JOIN
- Lecture 2 :
- Join types - OUTER JOIN - LEFT / RIGHT / FULL
- Lecture 3 :
- Join types - CROSS JOIN
- Lecture 4 :
- Holy UNION !
- Lecture 5 :
- A bite of Sub…….queries
- Lecture 6 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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Section 9 : Summarizing and Grouping data
- Lecture 1 :
- DISTINCT and ALL Predicates
- Lecture 2 :
- Aggregate Functions
- Lecture 3 :
- GROUP BY clause / HAVING clause
- Lecture 4 :
- WHERE and ORDER BY in aggregate queries
- Lecture 5 :
- Wrap up - what we went over !
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