Not sure if we deserve all the reviews you can see on this site? Here are some of the things we do (very) differently to earn them.
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How can any training company guarantee the quality of their courses? Here's how:
We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.
The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself▼
Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:
It's dangerous to be sanctimionius, but we can see no possible benefit that tobacco and gambling companies bring to the world (and quite a lot of harm), so we choose not to work for them. Sorry.
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.
If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set
up the computers), or else
an online course tailored to your needs.
What other people have said about our SQL training
Here are some comments we've received about our SQL + training. You can see all of our 399 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"The course tutor was very friendly and welcoming to the course. He worked at a perfect pace for us to follow along with and understand. The course content was just enough to get started and not to overload the learner. I would highly recommend Wise Owl and will use again. This course was chosen as it came highly recommended by a colleague who did the advanced SQL course."
Finley Gray
NWF Agriculture Ltd
"I thoroughly enjoyed the course with a great trainer. My organisation has used Wise Owl several time before, you are a great training organisation so we keep coming back."
Adam Thomas
Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
"I thoroughly enjoyed the course and now feel ready to progress to the next step in my SQL journey. The course was well presented and our trainer was very encouraging and approachable. Thank you for an excellent experience!"
Bethan Morgan
Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
"The trainer was fantastic. He was great fun and made us feel confident that we could achieve anything. He was very accommodating and always took the time to explain things clearly."
Darren Higgins
Linney Group Ltd
"A great teacher who made all the content simple and easy to follow. There was a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, the venue was really nice and the restaurant lunches were an added bonus! I learnt a lot and actually really enjoyed it at the same time. Would definitely recommend to others. The training came recommended by some colleagues who had been on it previously."
Lucy Moor
Department for Education
"Really good learning pace. Everyone kept up to speed, even when helping anyone who was stuck. Very insightful for the potential use of other support software alongside SQL."
Sam Ohren
Liquid Logic (System C)
About our SQL training
Sick of having to contact your IT people or third party supplier to get at your own data? Learn to write queries to get at it yourself, using either SQL Server Management Studio or (by request) Azure Data Studio. We run two scheduled courses: a two-day introduction to SQL course, and a two-day advanced SQL course.
If you're a quick learner you could consider combining these two courses together and attending our single three-day fast-track course (but only if you're a quick learner).
Two-day introductory course - selecting data using SQL
This course will show you how to write queries like the one below using T-SQL, the dialect of SQL used within Microsoft's SQL Server:
-- show how many films there are for each certificate
SELECT
c.Certificate,
COUNT(*) as'Number of films'
FROM
Film as f
INNERJOIN Certificate AS c
ON f.CertificateID = c.CertificateID
GROUPBY
c.Certificate
ORDERBY
-- show most popular certificate first
'Number of films'DESC
This won't necessarily make much sense to you now, but it will do after the course!
This course assumes that you know how to write queries, and shows you how to program in SQL, including using variables, writing stored procedures and functions and using table variables and temporary tables. Here's a sample of what you'll learn to do:
CREATEPROC spListFilms(
@minOscars int,
@maxOscars int
)
AS
-- list films winning this many Oscars
SELECT
f.Title,
f.OscarWins
FROM
Film AS f
WHERE
f.OscarWins between @minOscars and @maxOscars
Still not sure which is the right course for you? There's more help available here.
Finally, note that we're also big believers in teaching you not just how to write queries, but how to write them well, following our own internal SQL coding standards.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
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How can I contact you with any questions?▼
You can reach us in one of the following ways:
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Phone
Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
Email
Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web
Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!
Do you offer SQL consultancy too?▼
If you can't invest the time to learn to write SQL, why not let our SQL gurus do it for you?
Get specific details about our
SQL consultancy, or more general information about how our
consultancy works.
Is there an easy way for me to assess my SQL skills?▼
You can take the following tests to assess your SQL skills on this site:
Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).
Do you have any SQL videos?▼
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn SQL:
Creating stored procedures and user-defined functions, using variables, working with temporary tables and table variables, and all aspects of SQL programming (roughly equivalent to the contents of our Advanced SQL course).
