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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.
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What other people have said about our SQL Server training
Here are some comments we've received about our SQL Server + training. You can see all of our 473 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"Our trainer was engaging and he didn’t assume any knowledge, which was helpful because we were able to learn the correct way of doing things from the beginning. I liked how flexible with time the course was, to give us regular breaks to make sure we stayed alert and enough time to do exercises and ask questions. I also liked the set up of the course with the movies/music databases because it was easy to understand but still relatable to what I would need to do in my day-to-day role."
Alysha Aitken
Adidas UK
"The trainer was superb, he understood how I related to what I was learning and was able to put things into a context that suited me. He made me feel at ease and that no question was a stupid question. I am already recommending you guys to colleagues and want to book another course. Wise Owl was recommended by a colleague in my new team."
Liam Dutson
URIS Group/Towergate Insurance/Commercial
"The course overall was great and I am happy I did it. The trainer was very friendly and taught everything thoroughly and with a lot of patience. The course materials were really helpful and thoroughly covered all aspects of SQL, especially for someone new to it! One thing which was particularly valuable was the step-by-step instructions included within."
Jasdeep Sandhu
CFC Underwriting
"The course was really helpful, informative and covered all areas needed (and listed in the course guide). The trainer was easy to approach and to ask for help and a very effective trainer. This recent experience, along with past experience of Wise Owl, confirms that you're a great company. Your website is the first I go to whenever looking at future training."
Rebecca Kirkby
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
"Really enjoyable introduction to SQL with a great trainer, who kept us all engaged throughout. The exercises were good reinforcement and had a nice level of challenge to them."
Dave Pringle
ista Energy Solutions Ltd
"A really great teacher."
Orla Emberson
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)
About our SQL Server training
SQL Server is Microsoft's flagship database. Simplifying slightly, you can divide it into the following parts:
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What it's used for
Database development
The first thing to do in SQL Server is to create a database, consisting of a number of different related tables. We don't run formal training courses in this as everyone's needs are different, but we can lend you our 30+ yeras of experience of building systems in the form of SQL Server consultancy.
Database querying
Most SQL Server users already have a database; what they want to do is to write queries to get the data out using Transact SQL, Microsoft's dialect of SQL (Structured Query Language). We run a two-day course showing how to select data from a database, and an advanced two-day course showing how to write stored procedures and program in SQL.
Database reporting
SQL queries just output data in tabular format. SQL Server Reporting Services (often abbreviated to SSRS) allows you to create paginated reports based on the tables in your database for printing, converting to Excel or emailing out to interested parties (Report Builder is a version of SSRS which allows you to create one report at a time - you can see the differences between SSRS and Report Builder here).
ETL
SQL Server Integration Services (often abbreviated to SSIS) allows you to Extract, Transform and Load data (so SSIS is often referred to as an ETL package). SSIS one of Wise Owl's favourite products, letting you draw pretty pictures showing how your data is moving around!
Data warehousing
A SQL Server database is called an OLTP (getting weary of these acronyms yet?) or online transaction processing database, but SQL Server also allows you to create an OLAP (online analytical processing) database using something called SQL Server Analysis Services (or SSAS for short). Past versions of SSAS required you to build something called cubes, but for many years now you have been able to use the SSAS tabular model to produce a database containing aggregated data for quick reporting.
