Overview

This course is designed to introduce students to Transact-SQL. It is designed in such a way that the first three days can be taught as a course to students requiring the knowledge for other courses in the SQL Server curriculum. Days 4 & 5 teach the remaining skills required to take exam 70-761.

Duration

5 Days

Target Audience

The main purpose of the course is to give students a good understanding of the Transact-SQL language which is used by all SQL Server-related disciplines; namely, Database Administration, Database Development and Business Intelligence. As such, the primary target audience for this course is: Database Administrators, Database Developers and BI professionals.

Topics

Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server

Introduction to T-SQL Querying

Writing SELECT Queries

Querying Multiple Tables

Sorting and Filtering Data

Working with SQL Server Data Types

Using DML to Modify Data

Using Built-In Functions

Grouping and Aggregating Data

Using Subqueries

Using Table Expressions

Using Set Operators

Using Windows Ranking, Offset, and Aggregate Functions

Pivoting and Grouping Sets

Executing Stored Procedures

Programming with T-SQL

Implementing Error Handling

Implementing Transactions

A more comprehensive course outline is available in the Course Download section, to the right of this page.