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:Glossop, London, Manchester
Next course:Wed 27 May 2020
Time:09.30-16.30

SCHEDULED DATES Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

The content of this course are as follows:

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

There aren't any pre-requisites for this course, although you'll find it easier if you've already seen a relational database (one with lots of tables joined together). The course uses SQL Server Management Studio, although if you're booking an onsite SQL course we will on request use Azure Data Studio instead.

Why Choose Us?

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

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Sample customer feedback

"Really enjoyed the course and very impressed with the pace and class size. The trainer was brilliant too! Been on multiple Wise Owl courses now and all the content and trainers were quality."

Chris Galloway (Autonet Insurance Group)

"The course allowed me to gain a core understanding of SQL and was very enjoyable and informative."

Thania Bari (The City of Liverpool College Group)

"Great training environment and very good trainer. Well paced course that included time to cover additional topics."

Steven Ford (Canterbury Christ Church University)

"Everything was excellent; delivery, pace and content. Having never had any kind of coding 'experience,' I feel I can apply basics back at the workplace, with familiar data. Recommended by colleagues. The trainer somehow managed to inject fun into what is deemed by many to be quite a dry topic!"

Chris Charlton (Leeds City Council)

"Brilliant - the trainer was very helpful."

Alexandra Rowland-Hyde (Helena Partnerships / Torus)

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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
Wed/Thu 27-28 May 2020	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 02-03 June 2020	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 23-24 June 2020	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 07-08 July 2020	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 28-29 July 2020	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 13-14 August 2020	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 15-16 September 2020	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 22-23 September 2020	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 15-16 October 2020	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 22-23 October 2020	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 17-18 November 2020	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 26-27 November 2020	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 17-18 December 2020	2	London	£795	Book places

Date(s)	Venue
27/05	London
02/06	Manchester
23/06	London
07/07	Manchester
28/07	London
13/08	Manchester
15/09	Manchester
22/09	London
15/10	Manchester
22/10	London
17/11	Manchester
26/11	London
17/12	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).