- Relational Database Basics
- Brief History of SQL
- Relational Databases [may be compressed due to attendee experience]
- Tables
- Rows
- Columns
- Relationships
- Datatypes
- Primary Keys
- Foreign Keys
- Relational Database Management System
- SQL Server Objects
- SQL Statements
- Database Manipulation Language (DML)
- Database Definition Language (DDL)
- Database Control Language (DCL)
- Simple SELECTs with SQL Server
- Introduction to the Northwind Database
- Some Basics
- Comments
- Whitespace and Semi-colons
- Case Sensitivity
- SELECTing All Columns in All Rows
- Exploring the Tables
- SELECTing Specific Columns
- Sorting Records
- Sorting By a Single Column
- Sorting By Multiple Columns
- Sorting By Column Position
- Ascending and Descending Sorts
- The WHERE Clause and Operator Symbols
- Checking for Equality
- Checking for Inequality
- Checking for Greater or Less Than
- Checking for NULL
- WHERE and ORDER BY
- The WHERE Clause and Operator Words
- The BETWEEN Operator
- The IN Operator
- The LIKE Operator
- The NOT Operator
- Checking Multiple Conditions
- AND
- OR
- Order of Evaluation
- Writing SELECTs with Multiple Conditions
- Advanced SELECTs with SQL Server
- Calculated Fields
- Concatenation
- Mathematical Calculations
- Aliases
- Aggregate Functions and Grouping
- Aggregate Functions
- Grouping Data
- Built-in Data Manipulation Functions
- Common Math Functions
- Common String Functions
- Common Date Functions
- Subqueries, Joins, and Unions with SQL Server
- Subqueries
- Joins
- Table Aliases
- Multi-table Joins
- Outer Joins
- Unions
- Inserting, Updating and Deleting Records with SQL Server
- Creating and Modifying Tables with SQL Server
- Creating Tables
- Datatypes
- Altering Tables
- Adding a Column
- Dropping a Column
- Renaming Tables
- Dropping Tables
- Views and Stored Procedures in SQL Server
- Creating Views
- Dropping Views
- Creating Stored Procedures
- Designing a stored procedure
- Specifying input parameters
- Returning a recordset
- Returning output parameters
- Testing stored procedures
- Conclusion
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