This three-day, comprehensive course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to work with the data in SQL Server 2008R2. Students will learn how to use the built-in tools included with SQL Server to construct queries, do tuning, analyze a query and its performance along with how to modify existing data, perform joins, create indexes and work with XML. The new features are discussed and their impact is explained.
This course includes instructional videos on each of the covered topics that are intended for student retention for use after the formal training.
SQL Training Audience:
Power Users and IT Professionals that are called upon to work with SQL Server in the retrieving or modification of data, and who need a good foundation to perform those functions This would include those users that develop reports and need to create Data Sets that work efficiently.
SQL Training Prerequisites
A working knowledge of databases but, not necessarily Microsoft SQL.
SQL Training Course duration
3 days
SQL Training Course outline
1. The Toolsets
- SQL Server Management Studio
- SQLCMD Utility
- Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)
- SQL Profiler
- Bulk Copy
- Use SQLCMD Utility
- Adventure Works Sample Database
- Data Definition Language
2. Data Types and New T-SQL Language Features
- SQL Server Data Types
- New Data Types
- Hierarchyid Data Types
- Spatial Data
- Date and Time
- FileStream Storage
- Grouping Sets
3. Single Table Queries
- Logical Query Processing
- Query Clauses (Listed in Logical Processing Order)
- FROM
- WHERE
- GROUP BY
- HAVING
- SELECT
- ORDER BY
- CASE
- NULLS
4. Joining Multiple Tables
- Normalization
- Old Style vs. New Style
- Cross Join
- Inner Join
- Outer Join
- Self Join
- Joining Multiple Tables
5. Subqueries, Common Table Expressions and Ranking Functions
- Subqueries
- Self-Contained Subqueries
- EXITS
- Views
- Derived Tables
- Common Table Expressions
- Analytic Ranking Functions
6. Indexing
- Understanding Execution Plans
- Table and Index Structures
- Syntax
- Clustered Index
- Non Clustered Index on Heap
- Non Clustered Index on Clustered Index
- Syntax
7. Query Tuning
- System Performance Analysis
- Query Analysis
- Database Engine Tuning Advisor
- Query Design
- Dimensions
- Hierarchies
- Time Dimension
- Slowly Changing Dimension
- Schemas
8. Data Modification, Transactions and Error Processing
- Modifying Data INSERT
- Modifying Data UPDATE
- Modifying Data DELETE
- Transactions
- Error Processing
- Debugging in SQL Server 2008
9. Store Procedures and Triggers
- Basic Stored Procedures
- Stored Procedures with Parameters
- Triggers
10. XML
- XML Introduction
- XML in Queries
- XML in SQL Server
- XML Data Type
- XML Indexes
11. (Optional) Asking Questions About Your Data*
- The Way T-SQL is Written is Confusing aint it?
- FROM(where?)
- (to?)WHERE
- Comparison Operators and Other Indecipherable Stuff
- AND OR or is it OR AND?
- NULLS Are Designed to Confuse You!
- LIKE (The Valley Strikes)
- Between (us)
- N NOT IN But Make Up Your Mind
- GROUP BY DISTINCT
- HAVING or Not Having, That is the Question
- SELECT (finally)
* Module 11 is optional and is written differently than the rest of the course. It is intended to be more collaborative and conversational. Presentation as part of the course is optional, but the content is available for students to take with them for later review.
