Top-to-Bottom SQL Instruction in 15+ Hours of Video Training
Overview
Strong SQL skills are necessary to be competitive in the market today for IT jobs such as database administrator, programmer, application developer, database designer, and many others. SQL is the gold standard for all leading products today, including Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.
SQL for Any IT Professional LiveLessons will equip you with …
Top-to-Bottom SQL Instruction in 15+ Hours of Video Training
Overview
Strong SQL skills are necessary to be competitive in the market today for IT jobs such as database administrator, programmer, application developer, database designer, and many others. SQL is the gold standard for all leading products today, including Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.
SQL for Any IT Professional LiveLessons will equip you with the standard language used to communicate with todays relational databases. If you want to be effective in any job that requires work with databases to access and manipulate critical data, you need to be proficient in SQL. Databases in general and SQL specifically are often portrayed as difficult topics, but video instructor Ryan Stephens explains database principles in simple terms, showing you how to create organizational success and further your career in IT.
In this video training, Ryan Stephens teaches IT professionals and aspiring IT professionals the standard database language, SQL, or Structured Query Language. This LiveLessons takes a comprehensive approach, guiding viewers through an introduction to relational databases, database design, SQL, data management, and data mining from basics to advanced queries that produce output, results, and reports in the real world.
Topics Include
Through effective slides, screencasting, and hands-on exercises, Ryan Stephens shows you how to design, build, manage, and query databases using SQL.
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Introduction
SQL for Any IT Professional: Introduction
Lesson 1: Unmask the Simplicity of SQL
Learning objectives
1.1 Understand the Relational Database and SQL
1.2 Explore the SQL language
Lesson 2: Get to Know Your Database
Learning objectives
2.1 Discover your sample database
2.2 Get to know your data via manual exploration
2.3 Set up your sample database
Lesson 3: Understand the Relational Database Design Process
Learning objectives
3.1 Relate database design to SQL
3.2 Understand the database life cycle
3.3 Know your data
3.4 Gather requirements
3.5 Model your data
Lesson 4: Define Entities and Relationships
Learning objectives
4.1 Understand entities, attributes, and relationships
4.2 Understand referential integrity
4.3 Define entities
4.4 Define attributes
4.5 Define relationships
4.6 Employ referential integrity by identifying primary and foreign keys
4.7 Create an entity relationship diagram
Lesson 5: Normalize Your Database
Learning objectives
5.1 Understand normalization
5.2 Explore the most common normal forms
5.3 Apply normalization to your database
Lesson 6: Define Data Structures
Learning objectives
6.1 Review your data to this point
6.2 Explore various datatypes in SQL
6.3 Fully define your data
Lesson 7: Create and Manage Physical Database Objects
Learning objectives
7.1 Review of the logical database design
7.2 Create and manage tables based on your design
7.3 Enforce database rules with constraints
7.4 Define other common database objects
Lesson 8: Manage Data and Transactions with SQL
Learning objectives
8.1 Populate tables with data
8.2 Update existing data
8.3 Delete data
8.4 Manage transactions
8.5 Create database objects from other objects
Lesson 9: Query Your Database Effectively
Learning objectives
9.1 Query your database without SQL
9.2 Explore the fundamentals of a SQL Query
9.3 Use operators in queries
Lesson 10: Join Tables in Queries
Learning objectives
10.1 Select data from multiple tables
10.2 Join tables in a query
10.3 Bring it together with your data
Lesson 11: Employ Functions to Create More Meaningful Queries
Learning objectives
11.1 Restructure the appearance of data: character functions
11.2 Understand dates and times
11.3 Skim the surface of aggregate functions
Lesson 12: Summarize and Group Data in a Query
Learning objectives
12.1 Understand the need to group data
12.2 Use GROUP BY in queries
12.3 Place criteria on groups in queries
12.4 Use HAVING in queries
12.5 Group and summarize your data
Lesson 13: Create Advanced Queries to Get More out of Your Data
Learning objectives
13.1 Understand subqueries
13.2 Create subqueries to drill down further
13.3 Explore the concept of compound queries
13.4 Use compound queries to merge data sets
Lesson 14: Create Views to Expand the Capability of Your Database
Learning objectives
14.1 Understand virtual database objects
14.2 Create and drop views
14.3 Update data through a view
14.4 Understand performance benefits and drawbacks of views
14.5 Understand and define synonyms
14.6 Integrate views with any query
Lesson 15: Manage Database Users and Security
Learning objectives
15.1 Understand database administration versus schema management
15.2 Use the System Catalog as a resource
15.3 Manage users and privileges
15.4 Use roles to control access and protect your data
15.5 Manage a changing database
Lesson 16: Take Your SQL Journey to the Next Level
Learning objectives
16.1 Recap SQL basics
16.2 Explore new data integrated into our BIRDS database
16.3 Walk through SQL bonus examples
16.4 Take this bonus hands-on workshop for the road
Summary
SQL for Any IT Professional: Summary