Writing Queries Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Course

This 3-day instructor led course provides students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

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Audience Profile

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

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language.
• Use querying tool.
• Write SELECT queries to retrieve data.
• Group 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 search.
• Describe how to create programming objects.
• Use various techniques when working with complex queries.

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Knowledge of data integrity concepts.
• Core Windows Server skills.
• Relational database design skills.
• Programming skills.

Course Outline

• Module 1: Getting Started with Databases and Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2008
• Module 2: Querying and Filtering Data
• Module 3: Grouping and Summarizing Data
• Module 4: Joining Data from Multiple Tables
• Module 5: Working with Subqueries
• Module 6: Modifying Data in Tables
• Module 7: Querying Metadata, XML, and Full-Text Indexes
• Module 8: Using Programming Objects for Data Retrieval
• Module 9: Using Advanced Querying Techniques