SQL Server 2000: Transact-SQL Querying/Updating

Course Overview

This instructor led, hands-on course is designed to provide students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Audience

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

Skills Gained

At the end of this course delegates will be able to;

• Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language
• Use querying tools
• Write SELECT queries to retrieve dataGroup 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 searchDescribe how to create programming objects

Examinations

Recommended as preparation for exam(s):

• 70-229, Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

Prerequisites

Delegates are required to meet the following prerequisites:

• Experience using a Microsoft Windows operating system
• An understanding of basic relational database concepts, including:
• Logical and physical database design
• Data integrity concepts Relationships between tables and columns (primary key and foreign key, one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many).
• How data is stored in tables (rows and columns). Familiarity with the role of the database administrator

Course Outline

Introduction to Transact-SQL

• The Transact-SQL Programming Language
• Types of Transact-SQL Statements
• Transact-SQL Syntax Elements
• Using SQL Server Books Online

Using Transact-SQL Querying Tools

• SQL Query Analyzer
• Using the Object Browser Tool in SQL Query Analyzer
• Using the osql Utility
• Executing Transact-SQL Statements
• Creating and Executing Transact-SQL Scripts

Retrieving Data

• Retrieving Data by Using the SELECT Statement
• Filtering Data
• Formatting Result Sets
• How Queries Are Processed
• Performance Considerations
• Retrieving Data and Manipulating Result Sets

Grouping and Summarizing Data

• Listing the TOP n Values
• Using Aggregate Functions
• GROUP BY Fundamentals
• Generating Aggregate Values Within Result Sets
• Using the COMPUTE and COMPUTE BY Clauses
• Grouping and Summarizing Data

Joining Multiple Tables

• Using Aliases for Table Names
• Combining Data from Multiple Tables
• Combining Multiple Result Sets
• Querying Multiple Tables

Working with Subqueries

• Introduction to Subqueries
• Using a Subquery as a Derived Table
• Using a Subquery as an Expression
• Using a Subquery to Correlate Data
• Using the EXISTS and NOT EXISTS Clauses
• Working with Subqueries

Modifying Data

• Using Transactions
• Inserting Data
• Deleting Data
• Updating Data
• Performance Considerations
• Modifying Data

Querying Full-Text Indexes

• Introduction to Microsoft Search Service
• Microsoft Search Service Components
• Getting Information About Full-Text Indexes
• Writing Full-Text Queries
• Querying Full-Text Indexes

Introduction to Programming Objects

• Displaying the Text of a Programming Object
• Introduction to Views
• Advantages of Views
• Creating Views
• Introduction to Stored Procedures
• Introduction to Triggers
• Introduction to User-defined Functions
• Working with Views