
Explore why a relational database management system outperforms spreadsheets for large, collaborative data. Learn core concepts, including fields, rows, columns, tables, keys and relationships, plus schema, normalization, and data types.
Explore how Microsoft SQL Server stacks up against Oracle and IBM in Gartner Magic Quadrant, and learn why its SSAS, SSIS, SQL Agent, and SSRS offer a cost advantage.
Identify the two physical files that power a SQL Server database: the primary data file (MDF) and the log file (LDF), plus secondary data files (NDF).
Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : Query Window
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Explore the system databases—master, msdb, model, tempdb, and resource—and their roles in SQL Server. Understand startup dependencies, template behavior, and how catalog views replace queries to system tables.
Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - bare minimum.
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - FROM clause
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - FROM clause - playing with column names - Alias
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - FROM clause - playing with column names - SELECT LIST
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Construct a bare minimum select statement using literals, retrieve data with the from clause, and rearrange column order using aliases and literal values.
Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - WHERE clause
SELECT statement - ORDER BY clause
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - BETWEEN OPERATOR
SELECT statement - NOT BETWEEN OPERATOR
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - IN OPERATOR
SELECT statement - NOT IN OPERATOR
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - LIKE Predicate
SELECT statement - Wildcard character matching
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - NULL values
SELECT statement - NULL functions - ISNULL , COALESCE, NULLIF
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - working with string values
Functions - CAST (), CONVERT (), CONCAT (), LTRIM (), RTRIM () , LEFT () , RIGHT () , LEN () , CHARINDEX () , SUBSTRING () , UPPER () , LOWER () , REPLACE ()
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - working with date values
Functions - GETDATE () , SYSDATETIME () , DATEADD () , DATEDIFF () , DATENAME () , DATEPART () , CONVERT ()
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - system functions
Functions - CASE
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - joining multiple tables using JOIN operator
JOIN TYPE : INNER JOIN
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - joining multiple tables using JOIN operator
JOIN TYPE : OUTER JOIN - LEFT OUTER JOIN , RIGHT OUTER JOIN , FULL OUTER JOIN
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - joining multiple tables using JOIN operator
JOIN TYPE : CROSS JOIN ( Cartesian product )
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement -UNION operator / UNION ALL operator
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - sub query - nested sub query , IN operator, NOT IN operator
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - DISTINCT predicate , ALL predicate, eliminating duplicate records
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - aggregate functions - COUNT () , MAX (), MIN (), SUM (), AVG ()
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - grouping and summarizing data
GROUP BY clause
HAVING clause
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Course : SQL Server 101 : Microsoft SQL Server for Absolute Beginners
Lecture : SELECT statement - aggregate queries
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Wrap up the course by showing how to group and summarize data, use distinct to remove duplicates, and apply aggregate functions like count, min, max, and avg.
In this course you will learn:
· Start from scratch by installing Microsoft SQL Server Express edition
· Requirements for installing Microsoft SQL Server
· Core concepts of RDBMS
· Comparison of MS SQL Server with Oracle, IBM etc.
· Getting around SQL Server Management Studio
· Details of System databases
· Constructing SELECT statement starting with literals
· Using FROM clause
· Working with columns specified in the SELECT LIST
· Using WHERE clause
· Using ORDER BY clause
· Using BETWEEN / NOT BETWEEN operator
· Using IN / NOT IN operator
· Pattern matching using LIKE operator and wild card characters
· Working with NULL
· Using string functions including concatenation
· Using Date functions
· SQL Server System functions
· Working with JOINS – INNER / LEFT OUTER / RIGHT OUTER / FULL OUTER / CROSS JOIN
· Working with UNION / UNION ALL
· A look at sub queries
· Duplicate rows – DISTINCT / ALL predicates
· Aggregate functions
· Using GROUP BY clause
· Using HAVING clause
What you'll learn
· At the completion of the course, you will know how to install SQL Server and create a practice environment for yourself.
· You will be familiarized with some of the core concepts of RDBMS / SQL Server.
· You will learn the ins and outs of SQL Server Management studio.
· You will start constructing your SELECT statement to retrieve data from SQL Server.
· You will know how to filter out unwanted data by using WHERE clause as well as, you would know how to order your result set by using ORDER BY clause.
· You will also know about some of the string functions, date functions, and system functions.
· You will see how to get data out of multiple tables using JOIN ( INNER / LEFT OUTER / RIGHT OUTER / FULL OUTER / CROSS JOINS).
· You will also see how to use UNION / UNION ALL operators and as to how they differ from JOINS.
· You will see how to group and summarize your data by using , GROUP BY clause, HAVING clause and Aggregate functions.