A 18 Hour SQL/SQL Server 2014/Visual Studio 2017 Course

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create a table

2) Understand how to select records from a table

3) Understand that a database is a complex construct consisting of multiple objects

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Learning Results

1) Understand how to use the order by clause

2) Understand how to select a row in which two cells match a given condition

Learning Results

1) Understand how to use the between clause

Learning Results

1) Understand how to write a query with column aliasing

2) Understand how to order by multiple columns

If there are issues with ordering by multiple columns, the link below gives additional detail.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2051162/sql-multiple-column-ordering

Learning Results

1) Understand how to add computed columns

2) Understand how to alias computed columns

3) Understand how to use computed columns in various statement types

Learning Results

1) Understand how to use the query designer to build queries fast

2) Understand how to modify queries using the designer

3) Understand that the designer has its own way of formatting queries

Learning Results

1) Understand how to incorporate basic SQL queries into dynamic web pages

Learning Results

1) Understand how to group records

2) Understand how to combine grouping, filtering with where, and ordering

Learning Results

1) Understand how to filter grouped results

Learning Results

1) Understand how to copy one table into another

2) Understand how to copy existing columns

3) Understand how to copy computed columns into another table

Learning Results

1) Understand how to add and use multiple parameters

2) Understand how to make, design and modify databases from within Visual Studio

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create a table manually

2) Understand how to insert data into a table

3) Understand how the system formats some types of data automatically

Learning Results

1) Understand how to use the update statement

2) Understand how to use the delete statement

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create a realistic application of updates, inserts, deletes,

Learning Results

1) Understand how to bring a table into 1st normal form

2) Understand how to remove duplicates

3) Understand how to make a composite key

4) Understand how to make an index and how the index helps in speeding up access to data

5) Understand what happens when you try to make a key using information that repeats across records

Learning Results

1) Understand how to bring a table from 1st normal form to second normal form

2) Understand that in 2nd normal form, the columns must be such that each nonkey field depends on all the components of the key

Learning Results

1) Understand how to produce the third normal form

2) Understand that in this form, each nonkey field must depend on the key, the whole, and nothing but the key

Learning Result

1) Understand inner joins as the intersections of tables

2) Understand how to visualize the concept of an inner join

3) Understand how to implement an inner join in code

Learning Results

1) Understand how to form an inner join using the editor window

2) Understand how to subset the data

Learning Results

1) Understand the concept of a left join

2) Understand how to implement a left join in code

3) Understand the execution plan and actual behavior of a left join

5) Understand how the nonmatching records from the table on the right are dropped.

6) Understand how records from the left are null extended

Learning Results

1) Understand how to write a left join with the editor window

2) Understand how to filter the results of a left join with a where

Learning Results

1) Understand the concept of a right join

2) Understand how to implement a right join in code

3) Understand how nulls are added during this process

4) Understand how nonmatching records from the table on the left are dropped

Learning Results

1) Understand how to code a right join with the query editor

2) Understand how to filter data using a where statement

Learning Result

1) Understand how to construct a full outer join

2) Understand how to add where statements

3) Understand the full join graphically

Learning Result

1) Generate four new tables using the query designer

2) Save the tables inside the database

Learning Results

1) Create a website

2) Connect the databases to the grid views

3) Connect a database to a gridview programmatically

4) Display all the results

Question: After watching this video, can you draw a schematic of the process illustrated?

Learning Results

1) Understand how to build a table for XML usage

2) Understand how the columns from a table designed for XML map to the names of elements

2) Understand how the columns from a table designed for XML map to the attributes of an element

Learning Results

1) Understand how to save the XML output

2) Understand how to configure a web page to use an XML file as a source for controls

3) Understand that ASP.NET controls are sent to a browser as HTML

Learning Result

1) Understand how to use the 'IN' logical operator

2) Understand that this operator returns either true or false

Learning Result

1) Understand how to use the Like operator

2) Understand how to use the and operator in more detail

3) Understand how to use the getdate() function

Learning Results

1) Understand the concept of a function

2) Understand how functions operate

3) Understand how to nest functions

4) Understand how to apply functions to do something practical

Learning Results

1) Understand how to use aggregate functions

2) Understand that these work with grouped data

3) Understand how to next function calls

Learning Result

1) Understand how to call functions on partitioned data using the over statement

2) Understand how to embed over statements in function calls

Question: Can you draw a picture to illustrate the functionoity of an over statement?

Student Observation: Paul Staley observed that you can also just write "order by 'Total'" at end

Learning Result

1) Understand how to write a subquery as part of a select statement

2) Understand how to apply a function inside a subquery

Learning Results

1) Understand how to place a subquery inside a from

2) Under the process of the query visually

3) Understand how to use aggregate functions inside subqueries

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create a stored procedure

2) Understand how to call a stored procedure

3) Understand how to alter a stored procedure

Learning Results

1) Understand how to add parameters to a stored procedure header

2) Understand how use parameters inside the body of a query

3) Understand how to call a stored procedure with parameters

Run a web page powered by a parametrized stored procedure.

Learning Result

1) Understand how to construct an if/else block

2) Understand the logic of an if/else blocks

3) Understand how to express logically equivalent ideas in different ways

4) Understand how to use the debugger to trace the execution of a query

Question: Can you draw a schematic to represent the logic of an if/else block?

Learning Result

1) Understand how to incorporate case/when into a stored procedure

2) Understand how to incorporate function calls into case/when

3) Understand how to use the floor function

Learning Result

1) Understand how to declare and use variables

2) Understand how to cast from one data type to another

3) Understand how to incorporate if/else blocks into while blocks

Note: Please put the variable increment line after the if/else block

Learning Results

1) Understand how to fill a table

2) Understand how to return values from a stored procedures

3) Understand how to use values returned from a stored procedure

Learning Results

1) Understand how to construct a try/catch construct

2) understand how the try/catch behaves

3) Understand how to decrement variables

4) Understand that try/catch is a general construct that exists in most modern programming languages

5) Understand how to create and delete temporary tables

Learning Results

1) Understand how to use the lag function to compare values between records

2) This function works in SQL Server 2012 and up.

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create and use a temporary named resultset

2) Understand how to increment a date by adding a counter variable to getdate()

3) Understand how to extract the month from a date

4) Understand how to formata name field by using substring and upper and lower functions

Learning Results

1) Understand how to use the Lead function with data from a CTE

2) This function works in SQL Server 2012 and up

Learning Results

1) Understand how to combine CTE's, inner joins, and aggregating functions with while loops and table creation

Learning Results

1) understand how to nest functions correctly and understand the results

2) Understand how to pivot tables to get a different view of the same data

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create a user defined function

2) Understand how to call a user defined function

3) Understand how to format the results of a user defined function

Learning Results

1) Understand how to create a function that returns a whole table

2) Understand how to insert into a table that is going to be returned

3) Understand how to call a tabled valued function

Learning Results

1) Understand how to declare a table variable

2) Understand how to set the values of a table variable

3) Understand how to use the char function to convert numbers to characters

4) Understand how to copy the results of a table variable