Business Intelligence training - Introduction to SQL

SQL Training

SQL for Beginners Training Course

£695 + VAT for most venues (£795 + VAT for London)

2 days

You can use SQL to retrieve information from your corporate database (providing, of course, that you understand its structure). This two-day introductory course will show you how to create tables in SQL Server, and then how to write SQL to extract information from them. You'll learn about the WHERE clause (for setting criteria); the ORDER BY clause; how to aggregate data using GROUP BY; and how to create inner, outer and full joins!

Course details

Locations:London, Manchester
Next course:Tue 30 April 2019
Time:09.30-16.30

SCHEDULED DATES Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

Using SQL Server

Using Object Explorer
Hiding system objects

Creating databases - overview

Designing databases
Primary keys
Indexing fields

Working with tables

Creating tables
Allowing nulls or not
Identity fields

Database diagrams

Creating database diagrams
Joining tables with relationships

Simple Queries

Creating queries
Comments
Indentation and case

Setting criteria using WHERE

Wildcards (% and _)
Setting criteria for dates
Coping with nulls

Outputting to Excel

Results, text and grid options
Copying and pasting column headings
Exporting using SQL
Exporting using the menu

Calculations

Calculated columns
Using aliases
String functions and concatenation

Calculations using dates

GetDate
Converting dates
Useful date functions

Basic joins

Inner joins
Table aliases
Left and right outer joins

More exotic joins

Cross joins
Full outer joins
Self joins

Aggregation and grouping

SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX
Various ways to count
Grouping by fields
Using HAVING to filter results

Views

The view designer
Limitations of the designer
Scripting views

Covered if time allows If time

Subqueries

The concept of a subquery
Using ALL, ANY and IN
Using EXISTS
Correlated subqueries

Covered if time allows If time

Derived tables and CTEs

Using derived tables
Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
Multiple CTEs in a single query

Why Choose Us?

No more than 6 people per class
Proper restaurant lunch included
491 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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Sample customer feedback

"Good content and very enthusiastic trainer. Decent location and good lunch."

Simon Heath (Bourne Leisure Ltd)

"The trainer was very good and friendly. Very informative. Relaxed and friendly, good touch on going out to a restaurant for lunch."

David Barnes (Trafford Housing Trust)

"Well structured, learned a lot. The trainer was very approachable in terms of questions and put in extra effort to hunt down answers to tricky problems. The lunches were also a nice touch, better than the usual packs of sandwiches you are given. Will definitely be applying a lot of what I learnt to my day-to-day work. The Wise Owl course seemed one of the few to take the learning beyond the real basics to intermediate level."

James Gallucci (Home Office)

"Large amount of useful content."

Morgan Howard (M2 Digital)

"Very good course, paced correctly, full answers given. Like the memory stick; will be very, very useful."

Robert Stevenson (Cross Keys Homes)

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You will get more out of the course if you are already familiar with at least one relational database, whether built in Access or SQL Server.

Scheduled Introduction to SQL training dates

Here are the Introduction to SQL courses we have scheduled for the next 3 months:

Dates	Days	Venue	Price	Booking
Tue/Wed 30th Apr/1st May 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 28-29 May 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 30-31 May 2019	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 16-17 July 2019	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 25-26 July 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 22-23 August 2019	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 03-04 September 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 17-18 September 2019	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 01-02 October 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 17-18 October 2019	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 05-06 November 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 12-13 November 2019	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 05-06 December 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 19-20 December 2019	2	London	£795	Book places

Date(s)	Venue
30/04	Manchester
28/05	Manchester
30/05	London
16/07	London
25/07	Manchester
22/08	London
03/09	Manchester
17/09	London
01/10	Manchester
17/10	London
05/11	Manchester
12/11	London
05/12	Manchester
19/12	London

All prices exclude VAT. If you can't see the dates you want, ask us about running onsite SQL training at your offices (we'll even provide and set up the computers).