SQL Intermediate 3-Day Course, Southend-on-sea

SQL Intermediate 3-Day Course By storing data in SQL, one can easily and quickly, with the use of queries, retrieve valuable information, trends, summaries, statistics and insights from your company data. The data might be anything from a simple shopping list to a picture gallery, to the vast amounts of information in a corporate network.  Why use SQL: Retrieve data, simply, quickly and easily. Make sense of your data. MySQL  is cost effective, (open source database), Secure and Cross-Platform, cost of maintenance is pretty low, and a favored option for small and medium sized companies. Course Overview: Candidate who would like to gain a basic understanding of a SQL database and SQL commands and move on the next stage. The content of the course covers the topics required for the Certified SQL Developer I examination. Prerequisites: No existing knowledge on SQL is required. You should have basic computing knowledge. Familiarity with relational database concepts is helpful but not required.   SQL Course summaryIn this SQL Course you will learn how to get valuable information, trends, summaries, statistics and insights from your company data using SQL. This course is ideal for managers and data analysts who need to get business intelligence from data.   SQL Course Desciption Session 1: Database Concepts To assist with the SQL aspects of the SQL Course, we also cover database basics. What is a database? Tables, rows and columns, Indexes, primary keys, unique constraints and foreign keys, Client-Server architecture, Supported data types, table types,. The Information_Schema Session 2: Using the SQL client SQL Getting started and Logging in, Selecting a database, Client commands, Entering and executing SQL statements, Retrieving previous commands, Creating, editing and executing SQL files, Redirecting output into a file, Command line execution of SQL Scripts Session 3: Basic SQL SELECT statement The SQL SELECT statement, Case sensitivity, Quotes, Statement terminator, Syntax conventions, The select clause, The FROM clause, Conditions and the WHERE clause, Boolean operators (AND and OR) and SQL conditional operators (=,!=,>, Session 4: LIMIT / TOP, UNION Queries and SQL AGGERGATE Functions The LIMIT and TOP clauses, Aggregate (Sum, Average, Maximum, Minimum, Count), Group By, Rollup with Group By, Having. Session 5: SQL Subqueries, Basic Subqueries, Nested Subqueries, CTE Tables   Joins: SQL Cartesian products, SQL Joins (Inner join, Left join, Right join, Full join) Table aliases, Natural joins, Join using, Join on, Multi-table joins, Union, Union All, Except, Intersect Session 6: SQL Numeric Functions (ABS, SIGN, MOD, etc.) and String Functions (Locate, Left, Right, Concat, etc), DATE and TIME functions Session 7: SQL Views (Create, alter and drop), Stored Proecdures with Input and Output parameters Session 8: Creating Databases and Tables Session 9: SQL Indexes Session 10: Managing Data Inserting rows, Replacing rows, Updating rows, Deleting rows, The truncate statement, The COMMIT and ROLLBACK commands, Savepoints, Implicit commits Session 11: SQL Server Access Control Creating users, Renaming users, Dropping users, Granting privileges, Revoking privileges Session 12: Import data into SQL and Export from SQL Exporting using SQL, Importing using SQL, Exporting from the command line, Importing from the command line