SQL Server Essentials in an hour: The SELECT statement

Name: SQL Server Essentials in an hour: The SELECT statement
Rating: 4.3 (2880 reviews)

Learn how to use SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING and ORDER in SQL Server. Helps with DP-600

Created byPhillip Burton • over one million students so far, I Do Data Limited

Last updated 7/2026

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What you'll learn

Build your own SQL Server SELECT statements.
Use the SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING and ORDER BY clauses.
Encapsulate (save) your statements as views or procedures.
Dynamically connect the results of your SELECT statements into Excel.

Coding Exercises

This course includes our updated coding exercises so you can practice your skills as you learn.

Course content

4 sections • 18 lectures • 1h 11m total length

Introduction2:10
Learn to create SQL select statements using select, from, where, group by, having, and order by clauses, save results with views and procedures, and export to Excel.
Welcome to Udemy0:55
Introduction to Udemy3:05
Learn how to navigate the Udemy video player, adjust playback speed and volume, access course content and resources, and use notes, Q&A, announcements, ratings, and certificates.
Do you want auto-translated subtitles in more languages?1:20
Have you got SQL Server?0:15

Opening SQL Server Management Studio and creating a database4:25
Open SQL Server Management Studio and create a new database named essentials. Open a query window, switch to essentials, and run a T-SQL query to confirm success.
The SELECT clause6:38
Discover how the select clause prints results, aliases columns with as, and accepts spaces with brackets, while noting Oracle differences and optional semicolons.
The SELECT clause - Quiz
The SELECT clause
Introducing Udemy in-course labs2:11
Learn to use Udemy in-course labs for SQL practice, navigate the integrated video and practice environment, complete tasks with schema-qualified queries ending in semicolons, and view results.
The FROM clause11:08
Master the from clause by sourcing data from tables, aliasing fields with as, and joining sis.objects and sis.columns using on conditions, including inner and left or right joins.
The FROM clause - Quiz
The FROM clause - connecting to one table
The FROM clause - connecting to two tables
The WHERE clause12:00
Learn to filter data with the where clause in SQL Server, using equals, not equals, in, between, and like patterns, including string literals and date formats.
The WHERE clause - Quiz
The GROUP BY clause6:23
Discover how the group by clause summarizes data using aggregate functions (count, sum, min, max), include non-aggregated columns in group by, and use distinct as an alternative.
The GROUP BY clause - Quiz
The HAVING clause1:51
Learn how the having clause filters grouped results by applying conditions after a group by, distinguishing it from where, and see a practical example with count(id) >= 10.
The HAVING clause - Quiz
The ORDER BY clause3:53
Explore how the order by clause sorts results after the select. Use aliases, ascending and descending order, and multiple fields to refine the final output.
The ORDER BY clause - Quiz

Creating a View5:26
Learn to create a view from a select statement, name and save it, refresh object explorer and IntelliSense, and run or modify the view with where and order by.
Creating a Procedure3:52
Create a procedure to run a select statement, modify it with parameters, and execute it with exec, understanding how procedures differ from views and how to alter and run them.
Importing into Excel4:15
Import data from SQL Server into Excel by establishing a live connection via external data from SQL Server, selecting the database and a view, and enabling automatic refresh.

Requirements

Ideally, you should have installed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) on your computer.
You need to know how to use a computer, and how to open a spreadsheet.
No other knowledge of SQL Server is needed.
There's a 30-day money back guarantee on this Udemy course.

Description

Do you want to learn SQL Server quickly?

Please note: This course is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft.

Reviews

Melisa says: Explanations are very clear! I recommend this course.

Monde says: Its was nice the lecture made clear to the point examples and I could make sense of what he was explaining example was making sense about all the aggregate clauses such as SUM, MIN, COUNT and AVG and MAX he was too good I like him

Jay says: I learned SQL years ago, and I needed a refresher on the basic syntax. This course was perfect for that purpose!

In this course, we will look in an hour at the SELECT statement.

There are six constituent clauses in this statement:

SELECT - this is akin to the Print statement in other languages, and
FROM - this shows your data source,
WHERE - this filters down your data source,
GROUP BY - this enables the results to be summarised,
HAVING - this filters the summary, and
ORDER BY - this sorts your results.

We will then look at saving your code using both views and procedures.

Finally, we'll export your reports into Excel, both statistically (copy and paste) and dynamically (so that you always have the latest reports).

In just an hour, you'll be able to create your own SELECT statements, so you can use them in SQL Server (SSMS, SSRS and SSIS) and in Excel. This is all you need to start writing and using your own code. Quick and easily.

If you have not already got SQL Server installed on your machine, this course includes a link to a video which shows you how you can install for free SQL Server Developer edition, together with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). These can be installed on your laptop or desktop to use for learning purposes for as long as you need.

Knowledge of this will also help with the DP-300 and DP-600 exams.

Who this course is for:

This course is for you if you want to learn about SQL Server's SELECT statement.
You can use the SELECT statement in SSMS, SSRS, SSIS and Excel.

SQL Server Essentials in an hour: The SELECT statement

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Welcome5 lectures • 8min

The SELECT statement8 lectures • 48min

Saving queries, and importing into Excel3 lectures • 14min

Congratulations2 lectures • 2min

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