Query and modify data with Transact-SQL

Query and modify data with Transact-SQL (DP-080T00)

Course Length: 2 days
Delivery Methods: Multiple delivery options
Course Overview

This course will teach the basics of Microsoft's dialect of the standard SQL language: Transact-SQL. Topics include both querying and modifying data in relational databases that are hosted in Microsoft SQL Server-based database systems, including: Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Microsoft Fabric.

This course can be valuable for anyone who needs to write basic SQL or Transact-SQL queries. This includes anyone working with data as a data analyst, a data engineer, a data scientist, a database administrator or a database developer. It can also be useful for others peripherally involved with data, or wanting to learn more about working with data such as solution architects, students and technology managers.

Course Benefits
  • Learn how to use Transact-SQL to query data in a database.
  • Understand relational databases, the SQL language and Transact-SQL.
  • Learn how to sort and filter query results
  • Explore T-SQL queries accessing data from multiple tables with various kinds of JOIN operations.
  • Learn how to use subqueries to combine multiple SELECT statements and compose nested queries.
  • Learn how to use functions in Transact-SQL, and how to group aggregated results.
  • Learn how to use Transact-SQL to insert, update, and delete data in a database.
Available Delivery Methods
Public Class
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Private Class
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Microsoft Certified Partner

Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner. This class uses official Microsoft courseware and will be delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

Course Outline
  1. Introduction to Transact-SQL
    1. Work with schemas
    2. Explore the structure of SQL statements
    3. Examine the SELECT statement
    4. Work with data types
    5. Handle NULLs
  2. Sort and filter results in T-SQL
    1. Sort your results
    2. Limit the sorted results
    3. Page results
    4. Remove duplicates
    5. Filter data with predicates
  3. Combine multiple tables with JOINs in T-SQL
    1. Understand joins concepts and syntax
    2. Use inner joins
    3. Use outer joins
    4. Use cross joins
    5. Use self joins
  4. Write Subqueries in T-SQL
    1. Understand subqueries
    2. Use scalar or multi-valued subqueries
    3. Use self-contained or correlated subqueries
  5. Use built-in functions and GROUP BY in Transact-SQL
    1. Categorize built-in functions
    2. Use scalar functions
    3. Use ranking and rowset functions
    4. Use aggregate functions
    5. Summarize data with GROUP BY
    6. Filter groups with HAVING
  6. Modify data with T-SQL
    1. Insert data
    2. Generate automatic values
    3. Update data
    4. Delete data
    5. Merge data based on multiple tables
Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft SQL Server class:

  • Working knowledge of relational databases.
  • Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
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