SQL | Archived exercise | Function to get courses for given resource name

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Software ==> SQL  (198 exercises)
Version ==> Any version of SQL Server
Topic ==> Archived  (70 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
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If you haven't already done so, run the stored procedure in the above folder to generate a database of training courses and delegates.

Create a multi-statement table-valued function (!) called fnCoursesForResources which - given a particular resource name - will return a table of courses which use that resource.  Here's how this should work:

SQL exercise - Table-valued functions (image 1)

You can call the function with different resource names, to get different results

You may find it helpful to declare an integer variable called @ResourceId, and set this to hold the ID of the resource corresponding to the name passed in as an argument.  You can then test to see if this equals null (which would mean the resource didn't exist).

Here are the first 3 of the 79 rows the function should return for a Projector:

SQL exercise - Table-valued functions (image 2)

This assumes you sort the data by course start date

Optionally, save this query as Courses for horses.sql, then close it down.

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only.
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