M2071: Querying MS SQL 2000 with Transact SQL

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.
- The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

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™ 2000.

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

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction to Transact-SQL

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

SQL Query Analyzer , Using Transact-SQL Querying Tools

• 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

Writing Queries to Solve Business Problems

• Leveraging Transact-SQL script
• Surveying Data
• Working with Data sets
• Processing Conditional Data