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SQL Intermediate

  • Length 1 day
  • Price  NZD 525.22 exc GST
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Why study this course

A crucial skill for anyone working with data is the ability to access and analyse that data. Structured Query Language (SQL) enables users to access data from databases, combine data from multiple related tables, and aggregate, sort, filter or limit the data retrieved as needed.

Our Intermediate SQL course builds upon the skills learnt in our SQL Beginner course. In this course, you'll move beyond using basic SELECT clauses for retrieving data. Learn to work with many different types of functions and expressions that modify the way data is returned in the result set. You'll use built-in T-SQL functions for working with string, date, and numeric data types and will calculate moving averages, running totals, and percentages using window functions.

Learn to use subqueries to perform more complex querying and to use views to simplify querying. You'll also create your own user-defined functions to encapsulate business logic and improve efficiency.

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What you’ll learn

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Work with an Azure SQL database

  • Write queries using Transact-SQL (T-SQL)

  • Use T-SQL built-in functions

  • Create user-defined functions

  • Write subqueries and create views to organise and manage data efficiently


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Who is the course for?

This course will be of benefit for anyone working towards Microsoft Certification in Azure Data Fundamentals and for anyone interested in working with data stored in the cloud.


Course subjects

Introduction

  • SQL and T-SQL

Data Types

  • Conversion between data types

  • CAST, CONVERT, and PARSE

Functions in SQL

  • Built-in functions

  • Aggregate functions

  • Scalar functions

  • Ranking functions

  • User-defined functions

Aggregate Functions and Group By Extensions

  • GROUP BY CUBE, ROLLUP, and GROUPING SETS

  • CASE and CASE alternatives

  • COALESCE

  • NULLIFF

String Functions

  • Concatenate, replace, and format

Date and Time Functions

  • Get today's date

  • Calculate date/time differences

  • Calculate a new date

  • Extracting date components

  • Creating dates

Logical Functions

  • IIF

  • CHOOSE

  • GREATEST and LEAST

Mathematical Functions

  • ROUND, CEILING, and FLOOR

Writing More Complex Queries

  • Subqueries

  • Local Variables

  • Views

Window (Analytic) Functions

  • OVER clause

  • PARTITION BY

  • ORDER BY

  • ROWS or RANGE

  • Calculate group totals, averages, percentages, and running totals

  • LAG and LEAD

  • FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE

Ranking Functions

  • ROW_NUMBER

  • RANK and DENSE RANK

  • NTILE

User-Defined Functions

  • Create, use, and modify scalar user-defined functions

  • Schemas


Prerequisites

This course builds on the knowledge and skills gained in our SQL Beginner course. Participants should be comfortable with writing basic SQL queries.


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