MS SQL Course, Advanced, 2-Day Course, Online Instructor-Led

MS SQL Server Advanced Course

SQL Sub-queries

·Sub-queries in the WHERE, SELECT, From or Having clauses ·Using SOME, ALL, ANY and IN clauses in the Where Clause ·Self-contained sub-queries ·Correlated sub-queries ·Sub-queries with the EXISTS predicate

Derived Tables and CTEs ·Using SQL derived tables ·SQL Common Table Expressions (CTEs) ·Recursive CTEs

Create, alter and drop Views, Indexes

SQL Stored Procedure Basics ·Stored Procedure Principles ·Creating stored procedures ·Executing stored procedures ·System stored procedures

Variables ·Declaring variables ·SET versus SELECT

Parameters and Return Values ·Passing parameters ·Default values and WHERE clauses ·Output parameters ·Using RETURN

Testing Conditions ·The IF/ELSE statement ·CASE ·CHOOSE

Looping ·Syntax of SQL WHILE ·Breaking out of a loop ·Basic transactions ·Beginning a transaction ·Committing/rolling back ·Deleting and updating ·Using DELETE and UPDATE ·Sys.Objects ·Dropping objects

User defined Functions Table Valued Functions ·In-line table-valued functions ·Multi- Statement table-valued functions ·Limitations of user-defined functions

Scalar Functions ·What are scalar functions? ·Some examples ·Disadvantages of scalar functions ·Three advantages

Cursors ·Syntax of fetching rows ·When to use (and when not to)

Triggers Create or replace triggers

Creating Tables in SQL ·Create, alter and drop Tables ·Inserting values, single rows and multiple rows using queries

Constraints: Not Null Unique Default Check Primary Key Foreign Key Identity / Auto-increments Sequencing Indexes

SQL Temporary Tables and Table Variables ·Create and use SQL temporary tables ·Create and use SQL table variables ·SQL Tables vs. Table Variables

Error-Handling ·SQL TRY/CATCH ·SQL System error functions ·Customizing SQL error messages ·@@ error function

Debugging ·The SQL Server debugger, Debugging (breakpoints, etc.)

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