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:Wed 29 August 2018
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
531 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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"Good pace, knowledgeable tutor."

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"I was very pleased with the course, the content, the exercises, the instructor. We had a very good instructor who took the time to explain everything in detail to each one of us in a professionally and friendly way. I have already recommended your services to my colleagues. "

Marie Poujardieu (ista Energy Solutions Ltd)

"Excellent course, content and delivery. Manuals, exercises and take away info is excellent. Will highly recommend to anyone. I like the six person limit and easy to use website which I'll use in the future."

Robert Cooper (Royal Sun Alliance (RSA Group))

"I have attended the following courses; Introduction to SQL, Excel VBA Macros and PowerPivot/Excel Power BI. All three were excellent and covered everything I expected and more! The courses were delivered by extremely knowledgeable, professional and friendly trainers and I would have no hesitation in recommending Wise Owl."

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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
Wed/Thu 29-30 August 2018	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 27-28 September 2018	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 02-03 October 2018	2	London	£795	Book places
Tue/Wed 16-17 October 2018	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 23-24 October 2018	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 15-16 November 2018	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 04-05 December 2018	2	London	£795	Book places
Thu/Fri 13-14 December 2018	2	Manchester	£695	Book places

Date(s)	Venue
29/08	London
27/09	Manchester
02/10	London
16/10	Manchester
23/10	London
15/11	Manchester
04/12	London
13/12	Manchester

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).